Frank Misiti is an experienced litigator representing clients in complex insurance coverage, intellectual property, commercial, and other business disputes in state and federal courts throughout the nation.

Frank advises insurers on coverage issues arising out of bodily injury, personal and advertising injury, products liability, medical malpractice claims, and environmental and toxic torts. He gained extensive experience in insurance coverage issues through the decades-long representation of clients in multiple litigations arising out of claims connected to the events of September 11, 2001. Frank is a co-author of the New York State Bar Association’s Insurance Law Practice treatise chapter entitled “Excess and Extended Coverages and Excess Coverage Issues” and is presently co-authoring a chapter styled “Insured Injuries Under Coverage B: Personal and Advertising Injury” in the forthcoming edition of the American Bar Association’s Reference Handbook on the Commercial General Liability Policy.

Apart from his active insurance practice, Frank also litigates and provides counsel to a variety of clients on issues relating to patents, trademarks, trade dress, and copyright. Notably, he secured the resolution of a complex trade dress and trademark infringement claim filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York relating to designs for sport and fitness headbands.

While attending Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Frank served as notes and comments editor on the Hofstra Law Review.

Frank taught history classes as a student teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and served as a graduate assistant coach for the high school’s varsity basketball team.

Bar Affiliations

Nassau County Bar Association

New York Intellectual Property Law Association

Education

Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, J.D., cum laude

Manhattan College, B.A., summa cum laude

News & Publications

• Keeping ‘Happy Valley’ Happy: A Cautionary Tale For Promo Firms
  September 4 | 2025
• There’s Coverage for That? The ‘Ins & Outs’ of Personal & Advertising Injury Coverage
  June 25 | 2025
• A Sleeping Giant: New York’s Grieving Families Act
  December 20 | 2023

Frank has served as co-chair of the Nassau County Bar Association Insurance Law Committee. He is as an adjunct professor at Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University where he teaches foundational lawyering skills. Frank volunteers his time coaching various youth sports, including basketball and soccer, and he volunteers as the vice president for his local championship soccer club.

Since 2019, Legal 500 has recommended Rivkin Radler’s Insurance Coverage practice in the Insurance: Advice to Insurers category. The Insurance Coverage Practice Group since 2016 has been included in the Chambers USA directory in the Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer category.