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East Hartford Lawyer Triples
A Settlement After Car Crash

By Robert Storace

Connecticut Superior Court Raymond E. Baldwin Courthouse in Middletown.

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oupled with a defendant who was driving Wynne said he invited the defense team to take his
drunk and his plaintiff client, a retired IBM client’s deposition, which “sealed our case.”
executive injured in a car wreck with the Larry Adler, owner of Adler Law Group, assisted
drunken driver, plaintiff co-counsel William Wynne Wynne on the case.
knew he had a strong case. During deposition, plaintiff Ronald Bugai showed
Wynne said Tuesday he had no intention of ac- “that he was a great witness and would make a great
cepting the defense offer to settle the case for witness at trial if it went that far,” Wynne said. “He
$32,000, and instead kept his eye on the $100,000 has an overall terrific personality and was able to
policy limit of defendant driver Henry Adams. show that he suffered from a significant injury but
“We weren’t going to budge. It was either $100,000 he was not someone who’d complain about the inju-
or go to trial,” said Wynne, a trial attorney with the ry. He was able to live with the injury, but everyone
Adler Law Group in East Hartford. knew he was in a great deal of pain.”

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