{"url_path":"/sec/crd-a/8-k/2026-08-11/item-8-01","section_key":"item-8-01","section_title":"Item 8.01 ****Other Events.**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-08-11","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/0001104659-26-094089-index.html","accession_number":"0001104659-26-094089","cik":"0000025475","ticker":"CRD-A","issuer_name":"CRAWFORD & CO","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/25475/0001104659-26-094089-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0000025475","primary_entity_name":"CRAWFORD & CO"},"word_count":281,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 8.01.****Other Events.**\n\n \n\nOn August 10, 2026, Crawford & Company (the\n“Company”) entered into a Stock Purchase and Sale Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Jesse C. Crawford, pursuant\nto which the Company purchased 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share, from Mr. Crawford.\nThe purchase price per share was equal to 97% of the official closing price of the Class A Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange\nimmediately preceding the execution of the Agreement, at close of market on the Effective Date of the Agreement, representing an aggregate\npurchase price of approximately $12,813,700.\n\n \n\nMr. Crawford is the father of Jesse C. Crawford,\nJr., Non-Executive Chair of the Company’s Board of Directors, and is the majority shareholder of the Company.\n\n \n\nThe Audit Committee of the Board of Directors reviewed\nand approved the transaction as a related party transaction in accordance with the Company’s related party transaction policy. The\nBoard of Directors separately approved the purchase. The purchase price reflects a 3% discount on the closing market price, which the\nAudit Committee and the Board determined to be fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company and its shareholders.\n\n \n\nFollowing the closing of the transaction, the Company\nwill have 28,686,832 shares of Class A Common Stock and 18,904,905 shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding.\n\n \n\n2\n\n \n\n \n\nSIGNATURES\n\n \n\nPursuant to the requirements of the Securities\nExchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.\n\n \n\n \nCRAWFORD & COMPANY\n\n \n \n\n \nBy:\n/s/\nTami E. Stevenson\n\n \n \nName: Tami E. Stevenson\n\n \n \nTitle:   Executive Vice President-\n\nGeneral\nCounsel and Corporate Secretary\n\n \n\nDate: August 11, 2026\n\n \n\n3"}