Figueroa-Berrios Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

Wilfredo Figueroa-Berrios was a nurse at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. For years, he held a position of trust in the emergency department, treating patients who came in vulnerable and often unable to protect themselves. In 2025, Figueroa-Berrios was criminally charged with multiple counts of sexual assault. The allegations are disturbing: he is accused of assaulting a patient inside Sinai-Grace Hospital and another woman outside the hospital, among other pending cases.

Our sex abuse lawyers place the blame squarely on Figueroa-Berrios and on the hospital system that allowed him to work unchecked. Sinai-Grace Hospital and its corporate parent, Tenet Healthcare, should never have allowed this to happen.

This page talks about these lawsuits and the settlement amounts we expect victims to see if the litigation is as successful as our attorneys expect at this early stage.

If you are a victim of Figueroa-Berrios, we can help. Call us today at 800-553-8082 or contact us online.

Nurse Figueroa-Berrios Lawsuit Updates

September 5, 2025: Prosecutors in Wayne County announced additional charges against Figueroa-Berrios, tied to allegations that he sexually assaulted a 41-year-old woman inside a porta-potty near downtown Detroit earlier this year. This is separate from the Sinai-Grace case, but it underscores a troubling pattern of predatory conduct.

September 1, 2025: Plaintiffs’ sex abuse lawyers issue preservation demands to Sinai-Grace and Tenet seeking CCTV footage, access-control logs, staffing rosters, prior complaint files, and relevant policies.

August 20, 2025: News broke that a patient at Sinai-Grace accused Figueroa-Berrios of sexual assault inside the emergency department. The victim says she was intoxicated and unable to consent when he assaulted her. Prosecutors charged him with multiple counts of third- and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. Sinai-Grace has placed him on leave.

September 2021: Earlier complaints surfaced when Figueroa-Berrios worked at a Livonia mental health facility. Victims reported misconduct, but no charges were filed at the time. Those missed opportunities allowed him to continue working in healthcare and to access more victims.

Sexual Abuse Claims Against Nurse Figueroa-Berrios

Multiple criminal complaints and survivor accounts describe a consistent pattern. Victims report that Figueroa-Berrios assaulted female patients in clinical settings, targeting them during moments of heightened vulnerability such as intoxication, disorientation, or medical distress. The allegations emphasize misuse of clinical authority and access to patients who could not protect themselves.

Prosecutors also allege conduct outside the hospital. One woman reports that Figueroa-Berrios forced his way into a public porta-potty and assaulted her. Another survivor recounts being attacked while seeking care inside the Sinai-Grace emergency department. These accounts, taken together, describe behavior that was not isolated to a single place or circumstance.

Additional victims may exist, and multiple investigations remain open. As those inquiries proceed, new witnesses, records, and digital evidence are expected to clarify the scope and timing of the alleged misconduct and what Sinai-Grace knew or should have known.

Allegations Against Sinai-Grace Hospital (Tenet Healthcare)

This case is about who can make survivors whole. The nurse has recently filed for bankruptcy, according to the court records our lawyers found. Even if a jury finds him liable, there will almost certainly be nothing to collect from him personally. Real compensation will come only if Sinai-Grace Hospital and its corporate parent, Tenet Healthcare, are held responsible for their own negligence. That is why the focus is on what the hospital knew, when it knew it, and what it did or failed to do.

Civil lawsuits will allege that Sinai-Grace and Tenet:

Failed to supervise and monitor the nurse despite warning signs.
Ignored or minimized complaints from patients and staff about inappropriate conduct.
Allowed continued access to vulnerable patients after serious concerns were raised.

The proof lives in the hospital’s own records, and lawyers will be digging deep into them. Key evidence includes:

Prior complaints, incident reports, and HR notes that show notice. What did they know/could they know about his prior employment?
EMR audit trails, badge access logs, staffing rosters, and assignment sheets that show opportunity and lack of supervision.
Policies on chaperones, observation, and video retention, and whether those policies were followed.
Internal emails or meeting notes that reflect decisions after concerns were raised.

When these documents line up with patient accounts and therapy records, juries can see a preventable systems failure rather than a single bad actor. Holding the hospital system liable opens the door to insurance coverage and corporate assets, from which meaningful compensation can be obtained. It also drives change. Settlements and verdicts can, as we will talk about below, bring about policy reforms, enhanced staffing, mandatory chaperones for sensitive care, and genuine reporting pathways.

Many More Women May Be Victims

The full scope of Figueroa-Berrios’s misconduct is not yet known. But given that he is already facing charges in at least two separate incidents, and that prosecutors are reviewing additional complaints, but there are always more victims in cases like this.

In many sexual abuse cases, survivors delay coming forward for years, sometimes decades. Hospitals that fail to act quickly often allow abusers to accumulate dozens of victims before the truth comes out.

Civil Lawsuits for Sexual Abuse in Michigan

Victims want to understand their options for compensation. You can bring a civil lawsuit against the person who assaulted you and, where the facts support it, against the hospital, clinic, or corporate owner that failed to protect you. Civil claims are about accountability and compensation. They move on your timeline, not a prosecutor’s, and they do not require a criminal conviction.

A civil case lets you seek compensation for therapy and medical care, lost wages, future care needs, and the very real pain and trauma you carry. It also tests what the institution knew and when it became aware of it. Claims typically include negligent hiring, negligent supervision, failure to train, and failure to act on prior complaints. The standard of proof is a preponderance of the evidence, which means more likely than not. You do not need a criminal verdict to win.

Courts can protect your privacy. Many survivors proceed as Jane Doe and obtain protective orders for sensitive records. Early steps matter. Preserve discharge paperwork, portal messages, text messages to friends, ride receipts, and any notes regarding dates and times. Most of this stuff, your lawyers can track down for you without you getting these, but redundancy is never a bad thing. Other key evidence that your attorneys will obtain includes badge access logs, staffing assignments, incident reports, and CCTV video. Fast preservation letters and subpoenas can sometimes make all the difference.

A civil lawsuit is mostly only about money. This is what the civil justice system is about, and our lawyers do not shy away from the fact that our primary focus is securing settlement compensation for victims. But for many, in fact most of the victims our lawyers represent, it is also something more. It is a tool that forces answers, surfaces policies, and drives changes that protect other patients down the road so they will not experience the same thing.

Estimated Settlement Amounts for Nurse Figueroa-Berrios Lawsuits

Any settlement numbers right now are conjecture. The facts are still developing, there are open investigations, and the record that really drives settlement compensation in sex abuse lawsuits has not been built. That said, survivors still want some kind of frame to understand what it could be because that informs their decision as to whether they want to bring a claim. So otherwise, you are left with no idea what a case like this could resolve for, and that is not helpful when you are deciding whether to come forward or how to plan your next steps.

It is hard to do but civil lawsuits price human suffering. The more credible the proof, the clearer the hospital’s notice, and the stronger the link between institutional failures and the assault, the higher the verdict risk for the defense. Systems create outcomes. If staffing, supervision, and reporting choices allowed a predator to operate, juries tend to punish that. If records are thin and notice is weak, numbers come down.

These are the early working bands, if you will, that might be helpful:

Single incident with limited lasting symptoms
A single assault, no major physical injury, symptoms improve with short-to-moderate therapy, minimal work or school disruption.
Working settlement range: $400,000 to $1,200,000.
Serious assault in a clinical setting with ongoing trauma
Assault during medical care or while impaired; sustained PTSD, panic, sleep disturbance, sexual dysfunction; regular therapy and medications; real disruption to work, school, or caregiving.
Working settlement range: $750,000 $1,500,000.
Repeated or violent assault with profound life impact
Multiple incidents or a highly coercive/violent event; inpatient or intensive treatment; long gaps from work or school; suicide risk or attempts; major relationship or family disruption.
Working settlement range: $1.5 million to $3,000,000

Again, and you probably have been given enough caveats already, we are painting in broad brushes. But we think these are the likely expected settlement compensation ranges that most cases will fall into.

Remember, these are settlement ranges. A jury verdict in the tens of millions would hardly be a surprise in a case like this. Jurors do not like sexual predators and those who enable them or turn and blind eye. It is unlikely we ever get that far. Sinai-Grace is not foolish. It will likely make the compensation payouts needed to compensate victims and make all of this go away.

Contact Us About a Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against Nurse Figueroa-Berrios

More survivors are coming forward, and civil lawsuits are underway. If you were abused by Wilfredo Figueroa-Berrios, you have legal options. You may be entitled to significant financial compensation.

Call us today at 800-553-8082 or contact us online.