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Suva (insurer)

Field	Value
name	Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund (Suva)
logo	Schweizerische Unfallversicherungsanstalt logo.svg
image	SUVA, Schw. Unfallversicherungsgesellschaft IMG 4964.jpg
image_caption	Headquarters in Lucerne.
type	State-owned enterprise
industry	Accident insurance
founded
hq_location_city	Lucerne
hq_location_country	Switzerland
area_served	Switzerland
owner
num_employees	4200
num_employees_year	2018
divisions	Rehabilitation clinics of Bellikon and Sion
website	www.suva.ch

Note

the insurer

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.

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. 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.

Its three missions are prevention, insurance and rehabilitation. 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).

Unemployed people are insured against accidents by the Suva. Since 2005, the Swiss Armed Forces are also insured against accidents by the Suva.

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