Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004509
Chunk: 73

Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 73
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 Directors has decided, as in the past, to ask the Company’s Shareholders to ratify this appointment as a matter of good corporate governance. Despite the appointment of KPMG as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm and the ratification by the Shareholders of that selection, the Audit Committee has the power at any time to appoint another auditor for 2025, without further Shareholder action. A representative of KPMG is expected to be present at the Annual Meeting and, if present, will be given an opportunity to make a statement, if he or she desires, and to respond to appropriate questions.

Recent Change in Auditor

As reported in the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on December 12, 2024 and March 4, 2025, on March 4, 2025, the Audit Committee engaged KPMG to serve as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for the fiscal year 2025. On March 3, 2025, following the completion of the audit for fiscal year 2024, the Audit Committee dismissed Ernst & Young, LLP (“EY”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. The decisions to appoint KPMG and dismiss EY were approved by the Audit Committee.

The reports of EY on the consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 did not contain an adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principle.

During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and through March 3, 2025, there were (i) no disagreements with EY on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of EY, would have caused EY to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in its reports on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for such years and (ii) no “reportable events” (as such term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).

The Company previously provided EY with a copy of the disclosures in the Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on December 12, 2024 and March 4, 2025, and requested that EY furnish it with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether or not EY agrees with such statements. A copy of such