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]
Name
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]
