Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-030894
Chunk: 229

Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 229
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 highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, plus 0.50%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank of America as its “prime rate” and (c) the Term SOFR plus 1.00%, subject to interest rate floors, with a minimum rate of zero. The weighted average interest rates under our Credit Facility were 6.8%, 6.6%, and 3.3% for the years ending December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively.

At December 31, 2024, a total of $218.1 million of short-term and long-term debt was outstanding, and there was an undrawn amount of $8.9 million under the letter of credit sub-commitments of the Credit Facility. These letter of credit commitments were for our own obligations. Including the amounts committed under the letter of credit sub-commitments, the available balance under the Credit Facility totaled $219.4 million at December 31, 2024.

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The obligations of the Borrowers under the Credit Facility are guaranteed by each existing of our material domestic subsidiaries, certain other domestic subsidiaries, and certain existing material foreign subsidiaries that are disregarded entities for U.S. income tax purposes (each such foreign subsidiary, a "Disregarded Foreign Subsidiary"), and such obligations are required to be guaranteed by each subsequently acquired or formed material domestic subsidiary and Disregarded Foreign Subsidiary (each, a "Guarantor"), and the obligations of the Borrowers other than us ("Foreign Borrowers") for which we are not the primary obligor are also guaranteed by us. In addition, (i) the Borrowers’ obligations under the Credit Facility are secured by a first priority lien (subject to liens permitted by the Credit Facility) on substantially all of the personal property of us and the Guarantors as set forth in the Security and Pledge Agreement and (ii) the obligations of the Foreign Borrowers are secured by a first priority lien on 100% of the capital stock of the Foreign Borrowers.

The representations, covenants and events of default in the Credit Facility are customary for financing transactions of this nature, including required compliance with a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio and a maximum interest coverage ratio (each as defined below).

We have two principal financial covenants in our Credit Facility. The consolidated leverage ratio, defined