The Suva, headquartered in Lucerne, is the Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund. It is a public-sectorinsurer and leading provider of health care coverage for employees in case of accidents in Switzerland.[1]
The name is the abbreviation of Schweizerische Unfallversicherungsanstalt (German for Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund, in FrenchCaisse nationale suisse d'assurance en cas d'accidents or CNA; in ItalianIstituto nazionale svizzero di assicurazione contro gli infortuni).
History
It was founded 1912 and its active since 1918.[1] For a long time, it held a monopoly for compulsory coverage for employees in high-risk professions. Its surplus income is distributed to insureds in the form of premium reductions.[1]
Its three missions are prevention, insurance and rehabilitation.[1] About half of people working in Switzerland are insurance by the Suva in case of accidents (128,000 companies and 2,000,000 people insured).[1]
Unemployed people are insured against accidents by the Suva.[1] Since 2005, the Swiss Armed Forces are also insured against accidents by the Suva.[1]
Notes and references
^ abcdefgh(in French) Federal Coordination Commission for Occupational Safety (Federal Department of Home Affairs), CFST communications, number 86, April 2018, page 13.
Swiss Institute for Accident Insurance (SUVA) in History of Social Security in Switzerland
January 31, 2023
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