Jillian Raines

Jillian Raines has practiced on the biggest stages available to an insurance lawyer, as both an in-house lawyer at the world’s largest technology corporation and outside counsel to corporate policyholders.

Returning to private practice in 2021 after serving as a corporate insurance attorney for Apple Inc., Jill helps policyholder clients navigate their most complex insurance-related issues. As a partner at Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP in New York, Jill has managed a variety of coverage lawsuits and claims, from directors & officers insurance disputes to cutting-edge privacy and product liability claims under technology errors & omissions and general liability policies.

For Paramount Global (formerly Viacom Inc.), Jill has secured multiple major rulings from the Delaware Superior Court. After defeating motions to dismiss, Jill secured a ruling that Viacom’s insurers cannot avoid covering a $122.5 million settlement resolving a shareholder lawsuit involving the 2019 merger of Viacom and CBS based on the so-called “bump-up” industry exclusion. Following that win, Jill successfully argued for summary judgment, securing a ruling in Viacom’s favor that the 2019 Viacom shareholder litigation was not interrelated to a group of prior lawsuits under an earlier policy period.

Some of Jill’s other notable litigation victories include securing:

• A favorable settlement on behalf of JRSK (d/b/a Away Luggage) following a forum victory in Delaware Superior Court against JRSK’s private-company D&O insurer, AIG.

• Full coverage for an underlying consumer privacy class-action settlement on behalf of Oracle Corporation soon after filing affirmative coverage litigation in Delaware Superior Court, which facilitated favorable settlements from an entire tower of excess errors & omissions and cyber liability insurers.

• A win for hedge fund Standard General that required Travelers Indemnity Co. to cover Standard’s costs to defend a defamation lawsuit brought by American Apparel’s ousted CEO Dov Charney. The decision reaffirmed that the employment-related practices exclusion does not bar personal injury coverage.

• A ruling for Verizon Communications Inc. requiring its insurers to cover millions of dollars in legal fees and costs incurred in successfully defending against a $14 billion lawsuit filed in connection with the spin-off of Verizon’s directories businesses.

Jill currently represents IBM in litigation against its historical CGL carriers for legacy environmental liabilities and beauty care company Revlon in a lawsuit seeking declaratory relief and damages for breach of contract and bad faith claims handling conduct.

Jill also helps a number of Fortune 500 companies secure insurance coverage for complex claims short of litigation under D&O, EPL, cyber, property, and liability policies. This work is uniquely informed by her prior in-house role at Apple, where she advised on insurance policy language, claims navigation, risk management and mitigation strategies, insurance due diligence, insurance licensing, product filings, and global policy and service contract terms.

At Cohen Ziffer, Jill runs the firm’s advisory services team, helping major technology, retail, biomedical, private equity, and critical infrastructure clients through insurance program audits, corporate risk assessments, insurance due diligence, and claim resolution services.

Between her graduation from law school in 2012 and 2018, Jill worked with the founding partners of Cohen Ziffer at two different Am Law 200 firms. Before joining Apple, she also served as a Legal & Policy Fellow for The Governance Lab at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.

Jill was named a Woman Worth Watching by Profiles in Leadership Journal in 2025, a winner of Business Insurance’s Break Out Award in 2022, and was recognized as a Rising Star by Insurance Business America in 2021.