Insurance Supervision Division
The Insurance Supervision Division is responsible for supervising health and accident insurers and for the military insurance system. It has supreme oversight in relation to accident prevention.
The division supervises insurers in areas including governance, risk management, solvency and capital investments. It also approves health insurers’ premiums. In addition it oversees the legislative processes associated with the Health Insurance Supervision Act, the law on accident and military insurance, and part of the Health Insurance Act and its implementing ordinances. The division is also responsible for allocating funds to the cantons for premium reductions and for monitoring the effectiveness of the premium reduction system. It is further responsible for all matters related to the risk equalisation scheme and the social health and accident insurance systems in an international context.
Philipp Muri
Head of Insurance Supervision Division
Further topics
Accident insurance
For employees in Switzerland, compulsory accident insurance provides protection against the health-related and economic consequences of occupational and non occupational accidents or occupational illnesses.
Military insurance
Key information on the Military Insurance Act and on the organisation and oversight of military insurance.
What is accident prevention?
In accident prevention, a distinction is drawn between the prevention of occupational accidents and illnesses (occupational safety) and the prevention of non-occupational accidents (leisure, household, road traffic).
Federal Office of Public Health FOPH
Insurance Supervision Division
Schwarzenburgstrasse 157
Switzerland - 3003 Bern