Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004509
Chunk: 3

Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 3
---
 holders of the Company’s Class B Common Stock are entitled to vote on the matters subject to a vote at the Annual Meeting. The Proxy Statement describes the matters which will be voted on at the Annual Meeting. It also gives you information so that you can make an informed voting decision on those matters. This Proxy Statement and the accompanying form of Proxy are first being mailed or delivered electronically to Shareholders and made available on the Internet at https://materials.proxyvote.com/224633, on or about April 7, 2025. Our Annual Report to Shareholders, on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, is also being delivered with this Proxy Statement and is being made available on the Internet at the web address above. Signing and returning your Proxy will ensure your shares are voted at your direction whether or not you attend the Annual Meeting. Even if you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, we request that you complete, sign and return your Proxy, vote by telephone or vote over the Internet in advance of the Annual Meeting so that we can ensure we have enough votes to conduct business at the Annual Meeting. On what items am I being asked to vote? You are being asked to vote on four matters:

| ● | the election of nine (9) directors; |

| ● | to approve an amendment to the Crawford & Company 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan which authorizes 1,000,000 additional shares of Class A Common Stock for issuance under the plan; |

| ● | to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers in 2024; and |

| ● | to ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for our 2025 fiscal year. |

1

Who may vote at the Annual Meeting? Only Shareholders of record of our Class B Common Stock on the Record Date are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting. If you are the owner of shares of Class B Common Stock held in “street name” through a broker, bank or other nominee, please refer to the information under “ Are voting procedures different if I hold my shares in the name of a broker, bank or other nominee?” below. Holders of Class A Common Stock are not entitled to any notice of, or vote at, the Annual Meeting. How many votes do you need to hold the Annual Meeting? In order for us to conduct business at the Annual Meeting, we must have a quorum,