A construction worker who was left with severe brain damage after a 25-foot fall at a job site  was paid an $8 million settlement in his Passaic County suit, Garcia v. March Associates Construction, on Aug. 2.

Jesus Garcia, an employee of Precise Demolition Corp., was working on the roof at the Shoppes at Ledgewood Commons in Ledgewood on Feb. 15, 2020, when he stepped into an unprotected hole and plummeted to a concrete slab below, said his attorney, Jared Glugeth of Glugeth & Pierguidi in Hoboken.