Workers' compensation lost-time claims increased 3 percent last year, the first increase in such claims since 1997, the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. (NCCI) reports.

NCCI says the 3-percent increase, which was adjusted to reflect economic factors, marks only the third time in 20 years that frequency has increased.

Prior to the increase in 2010, the report says, claim-frequency rates had fallen more than 56 percent, at an average decrease of more than 4 percent a year from 1990 to 2009.

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