Facts
A., born in 1991, suffered a left hand contusion at work on September 2, 2013. The Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (Suva) paid daily allowances and covered the cost of treatment. In a letter dated August 3, 2015, Suva informed A. that it would discontinue the cost of treatment benefits and examine the entitlement to a disability pension. In a ruling dated September 16, 2015, Suva determined that with a wage loss of 1%, there was no significant accident-related impairment of earning capacity and therefore no disability pension could be granted.
The Insurance Court of the Canton of St. Gallen dismissed A.'s appeal, insofar as it entered into it, and referred the matter to Suva for a decision on the daily allowance and medical treatment benefits. Suva then filed an appeal in public law matters with the request to set aside this order.
Considerations
According to the Federal Supreme Court, the suspension of temporary benefits and the case closure with examination of the pension issue are so closely related that a single matter in dispute must be assumed. The lower court should therefore not have assumed two different matters in dispute.
The suspension of temporary benefits and the examination of the pension belong inseparably to the object of appeal and dispute in the lower court proceedings. Even if Suva had not (even implicitly) addressed the suspension of temporary benefits in the…