H. Lockwood Miller III

H. Lockwood (Chip) Miller III has broad litigation experience across a number of substantive areas, with a deep focus on the defense of product liability and toxic tort claims in single-plaintiff cases and large, consolidated mass actions. He has litigated multiple matters involving a host of different prescription and over-the-counter medications, vaccines, and surgical devices, including phenylpropanolamine cough and cold products, cholesterol-lowering medications, polio vaccines, prescription antibiotics, implantable contraceptives, factor concentrate, paramagnetic contrast agents, weight loss medications, hormone replacement therapy, gastro-intestinal motility and bowel medications, laparoscopic surgical devices, denture adhesive, pelvic mesh, prescription opioid analgesics, and surgical sutures and needles.

Chip also has defended a wide array of other product liability and toxic tort claims, including with respect to asbestos, cosmetics and personal care products, lead paint, chemicals and chemical compounds, benzene, household and consumer products, butane-fueled lighters, material handling equipment, airline service equipment, alarm and signaling systems, industrial products, and playground equipment. His experience also includes general commercial litigation, premises liability, environmental, employment, and insurance coverage.

Honors & Awards

Appointed by New Jersey Supreme Court in 2010 to the District XB Ethics Committee

Community Involvement

•Trustee, Morristown United Methodist Church; volunteer parent-coach, West Morris Soccer Club, 2009-2012

Publications & Events

Publications

•Editor, Goldberg Segalla’s Life Science Matters blog: read Chip’s latest post here and all of Chip’s blog posts here
•“Avoiding the Next Lanzo: Some Thoughts, “AIRROC Matters, Winter 2018-2019
•“The Role of Preemption in Mass Tort Cases” (Co-Author) Chapter 15 in New Jersey Mass Torts and Class Action Treatise , New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2015
•“Plaintiff Win in Asbestos Case May Not Be Defense’s Loss ” (Co-Author), Law360, December 18, 2013
•“‘Rough Justice’ Is Not Justice “(Co-Author), Law360, November 6, 2013
•“Trio of Favorable Preemption Decisions for NJ Pharma Cos., ” Law360, Aug. 21, 2013
•“Keeping In-House Counsel Off the Stand (And Outside Counsel Out of the Doghouse) ” (Co-Author), DRI In-House Defense Quarterly, Summer 2012
•“The CPSC Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database: Ready or Not, Here it Comes!” DRI The Voice, Vol 10, Issue 10 (March 9, 2011)
•“Some Basic - And Not So Basic - Points About Removal,” Strictly Speaking, Vol. 7, Issue 4 (November 23, 2010)
•“Chinese Drywall: A Building Problem,” DRI The Voice, Vol. 8, Issue 43 (October 28, 2009)

Presentations

•“(Baby) Don’t Hurt Me: Considerations in Defending Claims for Punitive Damages,” NJDA and ACCNJ Products Liability Seminar, Newark, NJ, February 1, 2019
•Panelist, New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) and New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE) Asbestos Conference, October 2017
•“Genomics is Transforming Product Liability and Toxic Tort Litigation,” New Jersey Defense Association (NJDA) and Association of Corporate Counsel New Jersey (ACCNJ) Products Liability Seminar: Something For Everyone, Iselin, NJ, September 23, 2016
•Panelist, “Talc Case Litigation,” 2016 HarrisMartin NJ Asbestos Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, February 25, 2016
•“Defense Strategies for Handling Multi-Party, Multi-County, and Multi-Claim Litigation,” New Jersey Defense Association Products Liability Committee Seminar, Iselin, NJ, September 12, 2014
•“Ethics in Mass Tort Litigation,” HarrisMartin’s New Jersey Asbestos Litigation Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, February 21, 2014

Recent Insights

Avoiding the Next Lanzo: Some Thoughts, AIRROC Matters

Winter 2018-2019

The Role of Preemption in Mass Tort Cases, New Jersey Mass Torts and Class Action Treatise

Spring 2015

Goldberg Segalla Named a New Jersey Powerhouse by Law360

June 26, 2014

Plaintiff Win in Asbestos Case May Not Be Defense's Loss, Law360

December 18, 2013

'Rough Justice' Is Not Justice, Law360

November 6, 2013

Life Science Matters

September 3, 2013