---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-020315"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CRD-A"
cik: "0000025475"
company_name: "CRAWFORD & CO"
filed_at: "2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T16:09:52.090388+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Crawford & Company appoints KPMG as new auditor for FY2025, replacing EY

## Summary
- EY dismissed as auditor effective March 3, 2025 after completing FY2024 audit.
- KPMG engaged on March 4, 2025 as independent auditor for fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.
- No disagreements or reportable events occurred with EY during FY2023, FY2024, or interim period.
- EY's audit reports for FY2023 and FY2024 were unqualified with no adverse opinion.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-020315
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CRD-A
- cik: 0000025475
- company_name: CRAWFORD & CO
- filed_at: 2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/000110465925020315/0001104659-25-020315-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/000110465925020315/tm258151d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  CRAWFORD & CO dismissed Ernst & Young LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Ernst & Young LLP
  - Successor: KPMG LPP
  source text: the subsequent interim period through March 3, 2025, the effective date of EY’s dismissal
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/000110465925020315/0001104659-25-020315-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  CRAWFORD & CO engaged KPMG LPP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: KPMG LPP
  source text: On March 4, 2025, the Company engaged KPMG as its independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/000110465925020315/0001104659-25-020315-index.htm

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