Riddick v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Claimant James Riddick, Sr., formerly a prison guard at the State Correctional Institute at Grater-ford, has appealed from a decision of the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board which reversed a referee’s decision granting compensation to the claimant fór jób-related mental disability.

This court must decide if the board erred in(1) concluding that the claim for mental disability constituted a new claim petition barred by the three-yéar time limit in section 315 of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act,1 and(2) also declining to treat the claim as a…