Key legal question
Whether the cantonal appeal against the accident insurer's opposition decision was timely
Extracted holding
The appeal was untimely because, until the end of the transitional period, cantonal procedural law governed suspension of appeal deadlines in accident insurance cases.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 82(2) LPGA allowed cantons to keep applying their procedural rules for five years after the LPGA entered into force. In accident insurance, prior federal law did not regulate suspension of cantonal appeal deadlines, so cantonal feries rules remained applicable until 31 December 2007.