Company: CRD-A
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-030894
Chunk: 226

Company: CRAWFORD & CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 226
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 expense is not allocated to our operating segments. Stock option expense of $0.6 million, $0.6 million and $0.5 million was recognized during 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. Other stock-based compensation expense related to our Executive Stock Bonus Plan and our Omnibus Stock and Incentive Plan (pursuant to which we have authority to grant performance shares and restricted shares) is charged to our operating segments and included in the determination of segment operating earnings or loss.

Amortization of Customer-Relationship Intangible Assets

Amortization of customer-relationship intangible assets represents the non-cash amortization expense for finite-lived customer-relationship and trade name intangible assets. Amortization expense associated with these intangible assets totaled $7.5 million, $7.8 million, and $7.8 million in 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. This amortization is included in "Selling, general and administrative expenses" in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Unallocated Corporate and Shared Costs, Net

Certain unallocated costs and credits are excluded from the determination of segment operating earnings. These unallocated corporate and shared costs and credits represent expenses for our Chief Executive Officer and our Board of Directors, certain adjustments to our self-insured liabilities, certain unallocated legal and professional fees, and certain adjustments and recoveries to our allowances for estimated credit losses. From time to time, we evaluate which corporate costs and credits are appropriately allocated to one or more of our operating segments. If changes are made to our allocation methodology, prior period allocations are revised to conform to our then-current allocation methodology.

Unallocated corporate and shared costs and credits were $28.1 million, $19.4 million, and $7.1 million in 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. The increase for 2024 was due to a $3.3 million increase in professional fees, $3.0 million increase in unallocated compensation, and a $2.4 million increase in self-insurance costs. 

The increase for 2023 was due to a $3.7 million increase in self-insurance costs, $1.8 million gain on sale of our Canadian head office building in 2022, $1.5 million increase in professional fees, $1.4 million increase in compensation, $1.2 million for certain non-recurring fair value adjustments, $1.6 million increase in unallocated