The Local Switzerland

US expats in Switzerland vote Bernie Sanders in primary

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:22:59 +0100

The majority of American Democrats living in Switzerland voted for Bernie Sanders in a global primary held this month, showing greater success for the senator abroad than he's having Stateside.

Insurer backs woman disabled from pill use

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:10:00 +0200

Swiss health insurance company CSS is backing one of its clients, a woman who became severely disabled from using a birth control pill, in appealing to the supreme court a ruling that denied her damages from the drug maker.

Families fly to scene of fatal Swiss bus crash

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:40:00 +0100

Distraught families of victims of a horrific school bus crash in a Swiss Alpine tunnel that killed 28 people flew to the scene on Wednesday, still unaware if their children were alive or dead.