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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-128024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRD-A"
cik: "0000025475"
company_name: "CRAWFORD & CO"
filed_at: "2024-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T04:25:29.811756+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Crawford & Company selects KPMG as auditor for FY 2025, replacing EY

## Summary
- Audit Committee selected KPMG as independent auditor for fiscal year ending Dec 31, 2025; EY continues for FY 2024.
- No disagreements with EY on accounting principles or audit scope during FY 2022-2023 and subsequent interim periods.
- Material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting were previously disclosed in the 2022 10-K.
- KPMG has not yet accepted the engagement; no prior consultations with KPMG on accounting matters.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-128024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRD-A
- cik: 0000025475
- company_name: CRAWFORD & CO
- filed_at: 2024-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/000110465924128024/0001104659-24-128024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/000110465924128024/tm2430899d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-128024.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-128024.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  CRAWFORD & CO engaged KPMG LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: KPMG LLP
  source text: on December 6, 2024, the Committee selected KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/000110465924128024/0001104659-24-128024-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.