<h1>Private insurer opens 30 specialized health branches to boost rural access, digital onboarding, cashless care, raising compliance and consumer-protection issues</h1> A private general insurer launched 30 specialized health-insurance branches across two states to expand access in semi-urban and rural areas, offering a suite of retail health and personal-accident products, digital onboarding, and cashless hospital treatment via an extensive network. The rollout aligns with regulatory and public-policy objectives to increase insurance penetration and may implicate consumer-protection, distribution compliance, network provider agreements, and claims-handling obligations under applicable insurance law and regulator guidelines. The move could strengthen local service delivery and regulatory reporting responsibilities while increasing scrutiny on fairness of product terms, pricing, disclosure and grievance redressal.