Suva (insurer)

Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund (Suva)

Headquarters in Lucerne.
Company type	State-owned enterprise
Industry	Accident insurance
Founded	1918; 106 years ago (1918)
Founder	Hermann Häberlin
Headquarters	Lucerne , Switzerland
Area served	Switzerland
Number of employees	4200 (2018[1])
Divisions	Rehabilitation clinics of Bellikon and Sion
Website	www.suva.ch

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.^[1]

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 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

1. (in French) Federal Coordination Commission for Occupational Safety (Federal Department of Home Affairs), CFST communications, number 86, April 2018, page 13.

See also

• Trauma und Berufskrankheit
• Trauma und Berufskrankheit (journal)

External links

• Official website
• Swiss Institute for Accident Insurance (SUVA) in History of Social Security in Switzerland