Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001558370-25-004509
Chunk: 78

Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 78
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 the universal proxy rules, Shareholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees, must provide notice that sets forth the information required by Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act no later than March 9, 2026.

### OTHER MATTERS
The Board of Directors knows of no other matters other than those as described herein to be brought before the Annual Meeting. If any other matters come before the Annual Meeting, however, the persons named in the Proxy will vote such Proxy in accordance with their judgment on such matters.

April 7, 2025

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APPENDIX A

<div align='center'>CRAWFORD & COMPANY

2016 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN, AS AMENDED AND RESTATED</div>

**1.Establishment, Effective Date, Duration.

(a)Establishment.Crawford & Company establishes this employee stock purchase plan to be known as the Crawford & Company 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as set forth in this document. The Plan was approved by the Board on February 9, 2016, subject to stockholder approval, and will become effective only upon stockholder approval (the date of such approval, the “Effective Date”). However, if any Purchase Rights are granted under this Plan under Section 7 before the date the Shareholders of the Company are treated under Section 423(b)(2) of the Code as having approved the adoption of this Plan, such Purchase Rights shall be granted subject to such approval and if such Shareholders fail to approve such adoption before the first anniversary of the date that the Board approved the Plan, all such Purchase Rights automatically shall be null and void.

(b)Duration. Subject to the right of the Board to amend or terminate the Plan at any time pursuant to Section 18, the Plan shall remain in effect until the date all shares of Common Stock subject to the Plan have been purchased or acquired according to the Plan’s provisions.

2.Purpose; Prior Plan.

(a)Purpose.The primary purpose of this Plan is to encourage stock ownership by each Eligible Employee of the Company and each Subsidiary in the belief that such ownership will increase his or her interest in the success of the Company and the Subsidiaries and will provide an additional incentive for him or her to remain in the employ of the Company or such Subsidiary. The Company intends that this Plan constitute an “employee stock purchase plan” within the meaning of Section 423 of the