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] 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).

[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.