Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-030894
Chunk: 246

Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 246
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uarial gains. However, unless the minimum amount required to be amortized is below a corridor amount equal to 10.0% of the greater of the projected benefit obligation or the market-related value of plan assets, these unrecognized actuarial losses are required to be amortized and recognized in future periods. For example, projected pension plan expense includes $12.5 million of amortization of these actuarial losses in 2025 versus $12.6 million in 2024 and $12.0 million in 2023.

Net periodic pension expense for our defined benefit pension plans is sensitive to changes in the underlying assumptions for the expected rates of return on plan assets and the discount rates used to determine the present value of projected benefits payable under the plans. If our assumptions for the expected returns on plan assets of our U.S. and U.K. defined benefit pension plans changed by 0.50%, representing either an increase or decrease in expected returns, the impact to 2024 consolidated pretax income would have been approximately $2.1 million. If our assumptions for the discount rates used to determine the present value of projected benefits payable under the plans changed by 0.25%, representing either an increase or decrease in interest rates used to value pension plan liabilities, holding all other assumptions constant, the projected benefit obligations of our U.S. and U.K. defined benefit pension plans would have changed by approximately $8.7 million, and the impact to 2024 consolidated pretax income would have been approximately $0.2 million. Net periodic pension expense is also sensitive to mortality assumptions. If the life expectancy of pension plan participants in our U.S. Qualified Plan was to increase by one year compared to current assumptions, our pension obligations would have changed by $8.2 million and our annual pension cost would have changed by $0.6 million. If the life expectancy of pension plan participants in our U.K. Plans was to increase by one year compared to current assumptions, our pension obligations would have changed by $4.7 million and our annual pension cost would have changed by $0.4 million.

We estimate the service and interest components of net periodic benefit cost for U.S. and international pension and other postretirement benefits. This approach discounts the individual expected cash flows underlying the service cost and interest cost using the applicable spot rates derived from the yield curve used to discount the cash flows used to measure the benefit obligation. For the pension plans, the weighted average spot rates used to determine interest costs were 5.29