Our statewide collaboration with a network of Nevada health organizations gives plaintiff firms patient-authorized access to electronic medical records in minutes, not months. It's a first for the state, and a blueprint for what comes next.

Every injury case hinges on the same thing: what the medical record says happened, and when. And yet, for the firms representing injured people, the medical record has always shown up last. Incomplete client recall. Fragmented provider lists.Traditional record cycles stretching 30 to 60 days per request. A case built on what the client remembers, rather than what the data shows.

Today, that changes in Nevada.

SettLiT is launching the first statewide electronic medical record (EMR) access initiative for Nevada's plaintiff bar. Delivered through a collaboration with a network of Nevada health organizations, the initiative gives plaintiff firms direct, patient-authorized access to EMR data from across the state through a single platform.

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What changes for Nevada firms

Under the new framework, SettLiT customers in Nevada can query the state's full digital health footprint, including hospitals, specialty clinics, labs, and pharmacy networks, with one patient authorization and one request. Claims and pharmacy data return in roughly five minutes. Full EMR pulls return within days.

The difference is measurable. A case that once waited on a stack of fax-based records now begins with a complete digital picture of the client's medical history. Treatment gaps surface early. Pre-existing conditions come to light before the defense surfaces them. Case strategy starts from evidence, not assumption.

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Why Nevada, and why now

Nevada's digital health ecosystem is uniquely ready for this shift. The state's concentration of hospital systems on modern EMR infrastructure has made it one of the most connected digital health environments in the country. The data has always been there. What was missing was the access, and the legal framework to put that access in the hands of the lawyers representing injured Nevadans.

"Every injury case in America is decided on evidence that already exists somewhere in a digital system. The problem has never been that the data isn't there. The problem is that the firms representing injured people have been the last to reach it," says James Bateman, Founder and CEO of SettLiT. "We are proud to stand alongside the Nevada health organizations who share our mission, and together we are giving Nevada plaintiff attorneys the same real-time, full-picture medical visibility that hospitals and insurers have had for years."

Bateman contributes to working groups at DirectTrust and The Sequoia Project, the national bodies that shape how health data moves across the U.S. healthcare system. SettLiT operates within the same governance frameworks that allows patients to access and share their data with the organizations they care about. That architectural choice is what makes statewide collaborations like this one possible.

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The view from inside a Nevada firm

For Nevada firms already using SettLiT, the change is tangible in the cases they are building today. It isn't abstract. It's the difference between a paralegal chasing down a faxed record on a Tuesday afternoon and an attorney sitting across from a client with the full medical picture already in hand.

"Our clients come to us after some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. What they deserve is a law firm who can see the full picture of what happened to them, not one who's still waiting on a fax three months later. SettLiT lets us build the case around the client, not around the record requests. We can identify treatment gaps early, catch pre-existing conditions to stay ahead of the game to identify anything that could potentially impact their case. That changes what we're able to fight for, and it changes what our clients walk away with."

— Darnell Biblione, Medical Records Specialist, Valiente Mott Injury Attorneys

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A blueprint for the rest of the country

Nevada is the first state to go live with this level of integration, but it won't be the last. We intend to use the Nevada model as the blueprint for expansion into additional states throughout 2026 and 2027. Every state with a connected digital health ecosystem is a candidate. Every plaintiff bar fighting the same 30-to-60-day record cycle is the audience.

The data has always been there. What's new is that the firms representing injured people are no longer the last to reach it.

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Want to see what statewide EMR access looks like inside your intake workflow?

Book a demo with our team. We'll walk you through what SettLiT returns, how fast it returns it, and what it would mean for the cases you're building today.

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