Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004509
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Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form: DEF 14A
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 and Human Capital Committee also monitors the design and administration of the Company’s overall incentive compensation programs to ensure that they include appropriate safeguards to avoid encouraging unnecessary or excessive risk-taking by Company employees.

The Compensation and Human Capital Committee held five meetings in 2024.

For additional information about the Compensation and Human Capital Committee’s processes and its role, as well as the role of executive officers and compensation consultants in determining executive officer compensation, see “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” below.

#### Executive Sessions of Independent Directors
**Independent directors are required to meet regularly without management participation. During 2024, there were five meetings of independent directors. Mr. Crawford, Jr., as Non-Executive Chair of the Board, presided at these meetings.

Meetings of the Board of Directors and Board Attendance

During 2024, the Board of Directors held five meetings and each of the current directors attended at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the aggregate number of meetings of the Board of Directors and any committees thereof of which such director was a member. The Company encourages all directors to attend each annual meeting. The Company also holds a full Board meeting the same day as the annual meeting to further encourage all directors to attend the annual meeting. All director nominees, with the exception of Mr. Murphy, attended the 2024 annual meeting, which was held in person.

Corporate Governance Guidelines, Committee Charters and Code of Business Conduct

The Company’s Corporate Governance Guidelines, board committee charters and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics are available on its website at www.crawco.com through the “Governance Documents” link under the “Governance” tab on the “Investors” page and are also available without charge in print to any Shareholder who makes a request by writing to Corporate Secretary, Legal Department, Crawford & Company, 5335 Triangle Parkway, Peachtree Corners, Georgia 30092.**

#### Leadership Structure
The Chair of the Board presides at all meetings of the Board and the Shareholders and exercises such other powers and duties as the Board may assign him. Generally, the Chair of the Board provides leadership to the Board and works with the Board to define its structure and activities in the fulfillment of its responsibilities. The Company believes that the members of the Board possess considerable and unique knowledge of the challenges and opportunities the Company faces, and therefore, are in the best position to evaluate the needs of the Company and how best to organize the capabilities of our directors and executives to meet those needs. As a result, the Company believes that the decisions as