I wonder if someone has experience with getting "provisional" insurance for a car before moving to Switzerland.

We are currently in Prague and have car insurance until July 28th. We obtained this Czech insurance provisionally when we were in France and then gave the insurance company all the details of the Czech car registration as soon as it was done. We will move to Geneva this summer and so we thought that we could do the same thing, i.e. obtain provisional Swiss insurance (with the temporary Czech plates they will put on the car before we leave) and then register the car in Switzerland when we arrive there. However, the response we have obtained so far seems to rule out this possibility. For example, on the telephone today, "Zuritel" at first said no problem, but then came back and said they couldn't give us "responsabilité civile" or public liability insurance.

Does anyone know if it is possible to obtain car insurance under these circumstances? We will come to Geneva at the end of June to look for an apartment, but it doesn't appear as though we would be able to import and then register the car until we have an address and actually move there, although I would be the first to admit to my ignorance of this whole procedure.

Many thanks.