The owner of an apartment complex agreed to pay $3.7 million on March 15 to settle a Middlesex County suit, Higgins v. Sky-Top Gardens Inc., filed on behalf of a man with Down syndrome who suffered a brain injury when he fell on a defective stairway.

Dennis Higgins, now 62, a resident of the Sky-Top Gardens apartments in Woodbridge, was descending a concrete stairway leading to a laundry room at the complex on Nov. 26, 2016, when he fell forward and struck his head on a concrete wall, according to Barry Eichen of Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow in Edison, the attorney for the plaintiffs.