Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001104659-25-020315
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Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 4.01
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Item 4.01. Changes in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.

As previously
reported in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 12, 2024, on December 6, 2024, the Audit Committee selected KPMG LPP (“ KPMG”)
as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. Ernst
& Young LLP (“ EY”) continued as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year
ending December 31, 2024. On March 3, 2025, when the Company filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2024 with the SEC, EY completed its audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for such fiscal year, and the Company’s
retention of EY as its independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the audit of the Company’s consolidated financial
statements ended as of that date. On March 4, 2025, the Company engaged KPMG as its independent registered public accounting firm for
the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

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

During
the fiscal years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024, and the subsequent interim period through March 3, 2025, the effective date of EY’s
dismissal, there were: (i) no disagreements within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions between
the Company and EY on any matters of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure
which, if not resolved to EY’s satisfaction, would have caused EY to make reference thereto in their reports; and (ii) no “reportable
events” within the meaning of Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.

The Company
has requested that EY furnish a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether or not it agrees with the above
statements. A copy of EY’s letter, dated March 4, 2025, is filed as Exhibit 16