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All about insurance

 

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Switzerland is a federal country and we have federal laws as well as cantonal laws. Insurance is subject to federal law but some companies have different coverage for different canton. (e.g. Geneva give a tax deduction on 3b).

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Which Insurance do you really need in Switzerland?

  • Health insurance

By Law, as soon as you become resident in Switzerland, you must subscribe a Swiss Health insurance.

The insurance is made up of two parts:

  • The compulsory part “basic insurance”
  • The optional part "the complementary"

 

  • Private third-party insurance

Every school, and Land lord requires this insurance.

Private third-party insurance protects an insured person against any claims that might be made against him through legal measures in the matter of third-party liability. The insured person is covered as a private person, head of a household, dog owner, tenant of a flat, soldier, sportsman and so on. Excluded are damages caused by the insured person as the driver or user of a motor vehicle or in the context of some occupational activity..

 

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  • Legal Insurance

It is recommended that you protect yourself and your family, against potential problems after a car accident, or from your mechanic, neighbours, employers, land lords etc...

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Protecting your family:

Provide your children with a secure future - we can organise saving schemes for school/university fees, etc...

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  • Travel assistance Insurance:

With travel assistance insurance as part of your travel gear you are ideally prepared for your vacation. If anything happens before or during your vacation you and your family are well protected with a travel assistance policy. Put together your own Assistance insurance plan to suit your needs at home and away:

  • Breakdown recovery assistance (free service in Generali car insurance)
  • Cancellation costs insurance
  • Travel insurance
  • Home Assistance Service (free service in Generali Household insurance)
  • Travel legal insurance

 

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Personalised Retirement Planing:

There are many ways to provide for a retirement pension... pension schemes with an insurance 3rd Pillar , investments, property purchase...

 

Life insurance:

Protection for you and your family in the event of death and/or disability, It is a death-risk insurance.

If an insured person dies before the contracted term of a Life insurance the insurance company pays out an agreed capital sum. If the insured person is still alive at term, no benefit is payable.

 

Tax deduction:

Tax benefits resulting, for instance, from concluding a life insurance policy. The state provides tax advantages for pension solutions that correspond to specific legal provisions. There are differences between the privileges relating to pillar 3a (linked insurance) and pillar 3b (non-linked insurance).

Life insurance premiums in the context of pillar 3a (linked insurance) may be entirely deducted from income provided that the maximum deduction limits (6'365.-chf/year) are not exceeded.

Life insurance premiums in the context of pillar 3b (non-linked insurance) may be deducted from income together with other insurance premiums (e.g. health plan) up to a given limit (flat-rate deduction). In Geneva you get a special tax deduction.

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Endowment insurance:

We propose as endowment insurance a choice of fund-linked life insurance, with a minimum guaranteed capital sum at the end of the contract.

Endowment insurance may be considered as the classic form of life insurance. In contrast to death-risk insurance, endowment insurance guarantees benefits not only in the event of premature death, but also where the insured person is still alive at the term of the contract. The premium financing endowment insurance comprises a part which covers the risk and costs and an appreciable part serving as a savings element. This savings part of the premium is refunded at the technical interest rate.

 

Understand the Swiss and the French vocabulary for your insurance

 

French

 

English

 

Famille
Family
  • Responsabilté civile de particulier
  • Assurance maladie
  • Health care insurance (sickness)
  • Assurance accident
  • Health care insurance (accident)
  • Assurance assistance
  • Assurance risque décès
  • Assurance mixte
  • Libération du paiement des primes
  • Assurance d'incapacité de gains
  • Prévoyance liée 3ème Pilier 3a
  • Prévoyance libre 3ème Pilier 3b
  • Les 3 Piliers
  • 1er Pilier
  • 2éme Pilier
  • 3ème Pilier

 

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  • Insurance Explanation

 

  • Private third-party insurance:

Every school, and Land lord requires this insurance

This is a coverage for any damage you can do unintentionally in every day's life, to other people or to your new apartment.

Private third-party insurance protects an insured person against any claims that might be made against him through legal measures in the matter of third-party liability. The insured person is covered as a private person, head of a household, dog owner, tenant of a flat, soldier, sportsman and so on. Excluded are damages caused by the insured person as the driver or user of a motor vehicle or in the context of some occupational activity..

 

  • Travel assistance insurance:

With travel assistance insurance as part of your travel gear you are ideally prepared for your vacation. If anything happens before or during your vacation you and your family are well protected with a travel assistance policy. Put together your own Assistance insurance plan to suit your needs at home and away:

  • Breakdown recovery assistance (free service in Generali car insurance)
  • Cancellation costs insurance
  • Travel insurance
  • Home Assistance Service (free service in Generali Household insurance)
  • Travel legal insurance

 

  • Life insurance:

Protection for you and your family in the event of death and/or disability, it is a death-risk insurance.

If an insured person dies before the contracted term of a life insurance, the insurance company pays out an agreed capital sum. If the insured person is still alive at term, no benefit is payable.

 

  • Endowment insurance:

We propose as endowment insurance a choice of fund-linked life insurance, with a minimum guaranteed capital sum at the end of the contract.

Endowment insurance may be considered as the classic form of life insurance. In contrast to death-risk insurance, endowment insurance guarantees benefits not only in the event of premature death, but also where the insured person is still alive at the term of the contract. The premium financing endowment insurance comprises a part which covers the risk and costs and an appreciable part serving as a savings element. This savings part of the premium is refunded at the technical interest rate.

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  • Premium payment waiver:

The insured person is freed from the obligation to pay premiums if he/she becomes unable to work or disabled during the term of the insurance. The insurance company takes over the remaining premium payments corresponding to the insured person's level of disability. The insurance will continue without change.

 

  • Disability insurance:

The insured person is the contractual partner of an insurance company. He pays premiums and obtains in return the benefits specified in the contract in event of disability. Most of the time it is a disability pension (annuitiy) or a capital sum.

 

  • The Three Pillars:

The first Pillar

AVS French abbreviations for"old-age and Survivor' Insurance".

AI French abbreviations for invalidity insurance

The old-age and survivors' insurance (AVS) has been in force since 1948 though there have been several revisions to it since then. Along with the AI, the AVS constitutes the first pillar of the Swiss triple-pillar system and is designed to provide a minimum standard of living. It is compulsory for all persons living and working in Switzerland. Eligible persons receive old-age and survivors' pensions as well as allowances for helplessness and auxiliary measures. Rightful claimants are all either insured persons or their survivors. Special arrangements apply to non-Swiss nationals.

 

The second Pillar

LPP French abbreviations for the "Federal Law on Occupational Benefit Plans concerning Old-Age, Survivors and Invalidity".

The LPP (Federal Law on Occupational Benefit Plans concerning Old-Age, Survivors' and Invalidity) lays out the regulations for employees' occupational pension plans - the compulsory 2nd pillar of the triple-pillar system. The aim of these plans - in conjunction with AH/AVS and IV/AI benefits - is to enable surviving dependants, the elderly and disabled persons to maintain a standard of living as close as possible to their previous standard. All employed persons subject to AHV/AVS contributions and with a minimum income fixed by the employer are covered. The main benefits provided by the LPP are payment of old-age pensions, widows' and orphans' pensions and invalidity pensions.

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The Third Pillar

The third pillar is formed by voluntary personal pension plans. This supplements the first and second pillars in accordance with personal needs. The third pillar is subdivided into restricted (3a) pension plans and unrestricted (3b)

 

 

  • Linked saving plans 3rd Pillar 3a:

We propose as saving plans insurance, a choice of fund-linked life insurance, with a minimum guaranteed capital sum at the end of the contract.

Linked savings plans (or restricted pension plans) are a way of saving for retirement which provides tax privileges. They are designed to supplement Pillars 1 and 2. Because the money saved must serve exclusively and irrevocably as part of long-term savings, this form is described as "restricted". Due to the tax privileges inherent in such pension plans, restrictions are imposed on their conclusion, structure and disposition of claims, on the basis of legal provisions. As well as saving for retirement, provisions for death and disability may also be structured and combined in accordance with individual needs.t

 

  • Non-linked saving plans 3rd Pillar 3b:

We propose as saving plans insurance, a choice of fund-linked life insurance, with a minimum guaranteed capital sum at the end of the contract.

Non-linked provision measures (or unrestricted pension plans) are designated as all personal pension measures taken as defined under Pillar 3b of the three-pillar system. Principal amongst them is life insurance, but they also include investments, the purchase of residential property, and so on..

 

 

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