Suva (insurer)
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The Suva, headquartered in Lucerne, is the Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund. It is a public-sector insurer and leading provider of health care coverage for employees in case of accidents in Switzerland.<ref name=FCOS/>
Name
The name is the abbreviation of Schweizerische Unfallversicherungsanstalt (German for Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund, in French Caisse nationale suisse d'assurance en cas d'accidents or CNA; in Italian Istituto nazionale svizzero di assicurazione contro gli infortuni).
History
It was founded 1912 and it's active since 1918.<ref name=FCOS/> 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.<ref name=FCOS/>
Its three missions are prevention, insurance and rehabilitation.<ref name=FCOS/> About half of the people working in Switzerland are insured by the Suva in case of accidents (128,000 companies and 2,000,000 people insured).<ref name=FCOS/>
Unemployed people are insured against accidents by the Suva.<ref name=FCOS/> Since 2005, the Swiss Armed Forces are also insured against accidents by the Suva.<ref name=FCOS/>
Notes and references
See also
- Trauma und Berufskrankheit (journal)
External links
- Official website
- Swiss Institute for Accident Insurance (SUVA) in History of Social Security in Switzerland
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