Aquilana Insurance
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| legal form | society |
| founding | 1892 |
| Seat | Baden , Switzerland |
| management | Dieter Boesch (Chairman of the Board of Directors) Werner Stoller |
| Number of employees | 43 (2020) |
| sales | 184.1 million CHF (premium income 2019) |
| Branch | Health insurance |
| Website | www.aquilana.ch |
Aquilana Insurance , founded in 1892, is an insurance company in the legal form of an association based in Baden in the canton of Aargau. Her area of activity with a total of around 40,000 insured persons includes all of Switzerland , 7 EU countries and Great Britain. As a health insurer recognized by the federal government, Aquilana offers compulsory health insurance in accordance with the Health Insurance Act , voluntary daily allowance insurance and supplementary insurance in accordance with the Insurance Contract Act. In the event of significant cost risks, Aquilana is reinsured with the Association of Small and Medium-Sized Health Insurers (RVK) .
history
Aquilana Insurance was founded on May 7, 1892 as the company health insurance fund of Brown, Boveri & Cie. founded and integrated the company health insurance funds of MFO (1978), Maag Zahnräder AG (1991), and Bucher Guyer AG (1992).
Until the end of 1995, only ABB employees and their family members were insured under the mandatory company policy. With the introduction of the Health Insurance Act KVG, the health insurance market was liberalized in 1996. In the direction of independence, the Asea Brown Boveri health insurance company broke away completely from ABB in 1997 and traded under the new name “Health Insurance Aquilana” (Latin: aquila “Adler”). The company name was changed on January 1, 2006 to the current name «Aquilana Insurance».