Jeffrey Moller is a member of our Maritime Emergency Response Team (MERT).
Jeffrey Moller is the leader of Blank Rome's Products Liability, Mass Tort and Insurance Litigation Practice Group. He is an experienced maritime law practitioner who has parlayed his tort litigation experience into successful representations in shoreside toxic tort and environmental contamination cases. Over the course of 25+ year career as a litigator in private practice, he has developed expertise in the following areas:
· Maritime casualty, cargo, and contract litigation
· Mass tort and product liability litigation
· Environmental litigation
· Marine construction disputes
· Maritime lien and ship mortgage enforcement
· Marine insurance coverage matters
· USCG license suspension and revocation
Mr. Moller is a 1976 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy. His commissioned Coast Guard career included service afloat as a qualified deck watch officer aboard the Coast Guard's largest class of High Endurance Cutters, and ashore as a marine pollution and casualty response officer in the port of Philadelphia.
Mr. Moller has been a proctor member of the Maritime Law Association since 1988 and currently serves as chairman of the MLA's Committee on Regulation of Vessel Operations. He is the business editor of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce. He was a contributing writer to the current edition of The Law of Tug, Tow, and Pilotage, published by Cornell Maritime Press. He has contributed articles on maritime security, criminal prosecution, and the Jones Act to such publications as Bender's Maritime Law Advisory and Marine News, and spoken before such organizations as the Society of Maritime Arbitrators and the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys.
Mr. Moller has received the highest possible rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Representative Matters
Mr. Moller has advised and represented prominent petroleum and chemical manufacturers, tankship and tank barge owner/operators, towing vessel companies, marine insurers, commercial lending institutions, and individual licensed pilots and officers. He has also served as a maritime arbitrator. Representative matters include:
· Countless Jones Act, cargo damage, collision, grounding, allision, and oil spill investigations and litigations
· National coordinating counsel service to a global chemical manufacturer in a national multi-district litigation pertaining to environmental resource damage
· Protracted litigation and arbitration of a dispute between a dredging subcontractor and general contractor involving both contract and vessel damage claims
· Trial verdict on behalf of the owner of a Philadelphia tank terminal against a mechanical contractor and its foundation subcontractor for catastrophic structural damage to the facility
Community Service & Affiliations
Mr. Moller's primary volunteer and pro bono interests include long time service to the Philadelphia area United Way's Community Impact Committee and Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. He is a member of the East Norriton (PA) Planning Commission.
Memberships
Maritime Law Association of the United States
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
US Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association
Defense Research Institute
East Norriton Township (PA) Planning Commission
Events
BLANK ROME'S SHALE OIL & GAS DEVELOPMENT GROUP SPONSORS SHALE GAS INSIGHT CONFERENCE
[Event]
Shale Gas Insight 2011
Philadelphia Convention Center
September 7-8, 2011
Margaret Anne Hill, Mary Ann Mullaney, Christopher A. Lewis, Jeffrey S. Moller, Laurie Alberts Salita, Raymond G. Mullady, Jr., et al.
MARCELLUS SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT IN NEW YORK STATE: THE ISSUES AND THE PLAYERS
[Event]
Online via webcast, or live at
Blank Rome LLP
The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
June 29, 2011
Margaret Anne Hill, Jeffrey S. Moller, Raymond G. Mullady, Jr. and Mary Ann Mullaney
THERE WILL BE BLOOD, OR NOT? ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT IN THE GULF OIL SPILL CONTEXT
[Event]
American Bar Association Section of Environment, 40th Annual Conference
Salt Lake City, Utah
March 17-19, 2011
Jeffrey S. Moller
PUBLIC NUISANCE CLAIMS IN MTBE LITIGATION
[Event]
Northwestern University Invitation: Judicial Symposium on Public Nuisance Litigation
April 26, 2010
Jeffrey S. Moller
Publications
STRETCHING THE BOUNDS OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY
[Article]
Maritime Reporter
August 2011
Jeffrey S. Moller
EXXONMOBIL V. NEW YORK CITY: JURY AWARDS WINDFALL IN CASE INVOLVING FEDERALLY-PERMITTED GAS ADDITIVE
[Article]
Washington Legal Foundation
July 8, 2011
Jeffrey S. Moller
MARITIME RESPONDER OBLIGATIONS AND LIABILITY
[Alert]
Mainbrace
December 2010 (No. 4)
Jeffrey S. Moller
MARITIME RESPONDER: OBLIGATION & LIABILITY
[Article]
Maritime Reporter
November 2010
Jeffrey S. Moller
STATE OF CONFUSION: DESIGN DEFECT CASES IN PA.
[Article]
Law 360
November 25, 2009
Jeffrey S. Moller and James J. Quinlan
"JOINT & SEVERAL" LIABILITY-TIME FOR A CHANGE
[Article]
Maritime Reporter
October 2009
Jeffrey S. Moller
PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN MAINTENANCE AND CURE CASES
[Alert]
Maritime Developments Advisory
June 2009 (No. 14)
Jeffrey S. Moller
EXXON VALDEZ PUT TO REST
[Article]
Maritime Reporter
November 2008
Jeffrey S. Moller
PUBLIC NUISANCE IN MTBE LITIGATION: AN ATTEMPT TO EXPAND TORT LAW BEYOND ITS HISTORICAL PARAMETERS
[Alert]
Product Liability Alert
April 2008 (No. 1)
Jeffrey S. Moller and John J. DiChello, Jr.
UNFIT MARINE WORKERS ARE A DANGER
[Article]
Maritime Reporter
November 2007
Jeffrey S. Moller
CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF THE MARINER (AND HIS EMPLOYER)
[Article]
Marine News
September 7, 2005
Jeffrey S. Moller
HOW TO INDENTIFY A JONES ACT SEAMAN
[Article]
Marine Link
September 8. 2004
Jeffrey S. Moller