Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the cantonal court violated the ban on excessive formalism by treating the appeal deadline as missed and not construing the July 4, 2007 letter as a timely appeal.
Decisione estratta
No. The letter could at most be viewed as a request for more time or, at most, as an appeal filed with the wrong authority; in either event, the later cantonal appeal was still filed too late.
Motivazione estratta
A timely filing to an incompetent authority must be forwarded, and the office should have done so. But after the IV office told the insured on July 12, 2007 that the objection period had expired and that she could appeal to the cantonal court, she remained inactive until the appeal of October 17, 2007. Even assuming a new deadline started then, it had expired by mid-September 2007.