Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-05-21
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-051539
Chunk: 1

Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-05-21
Form: S-8
Chunk 1
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PLANATORY NOTE</div>

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this
“Registration Statement”) is filed by Crawford & Company (the “Registrant”) to register 1,000,000 additional
shares of the Registrant’s Class A Common Stock, $1.00 par value, to be offered and sold under the Registrant’s 2016
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (as amended and restated May 8, 2025).

The information called for in Part I of this
Registration Statement is included in the applicable Section 10(a) prospectus to be sent or given to participants in the applicable
Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”). In accordance with
Rule 428 and the Note to Part I of Form S-8, the information is not being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “Commission”), either as part of this Registration Statement or as a prospectus or prospectus supplement pursuant to
Rule 424 of the Securities Act.

<div align='center'>PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>

| Item 3. | Incorporation of Documents by Reference. |

The following documents have been filed by the Company with
the Commission and are incorporated herein by this reference:

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), before the filing
of a post-effective amendment that indicates that all securities offered hereunder have been sold or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part of the Registration
Statement from the date of the filing of such documents (excluding any Current Reports on Form 8-K to the extent disclosure is furnished
and not filed).

Any statement contained herein or in a document incorporated
or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document that is also incorporated
or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified
or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

| Item 4. | Description of Securities. |