An appellant’s reliance on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision clarifying the scope of the Workers’ Compensation Act was misplaced in the wrongful death context, the state Superior Court has ruled.

In Riley v. Armstrong World Industries, a three-judge panel consisting of Judges Anne Lazarus, Judith Ference Olson and John Musmanno ruled that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Tooey v. AK Steel did not give more time for plaintiff Sherry Riley to file her wrongful death claim.