Sharon L. Wilson Named Managing Director at Crawford & Company

ATLANTA, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Insurance executive Sharon L. (Sheri) Wilson has joined Crawford & Company (NYSE: CRDA; CRDB), the world's largest independent provider of claims management solutions, to serve as managing director, Global Technical Services (GTS(SM)) for the U.S. Property & Casualty south central region.

In her new position, Wilson will drive new business development efforts in the region, which encompasses Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Also named an executive general adjuster (financial), she will manage and handle select losses for GTS. Based in Dallas, she reports to Bill Johnstone, senior vice president of GTS for the Americas.

Wilson's professional work includes significant experience in government and public entity, healthcare, large production facility, offshore, hospitality/retail and office environments, serving as a large loss adjuster, project manager and senior consultant.

"Sheri brings more than 25 years of extensive consulting, management, claims and loss prevention experience to Crawford," Johnstone said. "As we seek to expand our business in the region, particularly in the critical Texas market, we look forward to putting her skills to work for our company and our clients."

Most recently, Wilson served as senior manager of fraud investigation and dispute services-insurance claims services for Ernst & Young, where she managed accounting and engineering teams on commercial property claim projects and was responsible for business development activity for the practice. She also spent a number of years at Marsh USA, rising to the position of senior vice president of claims. In that role, she was responsible for all facets of the company's large, complex commercial property claims advocacy and consulting.

Wilson began her career as a technical customer service representative/supervisor and later a safety/environmental technician with Texas Instruments. She also was a loss prevention engineer and general adjuster for property losses for Factory Mutual Engineering Association.

Wilson earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, and a master's degree in business from Amber University, Garland, Texas. She has presented extensively at insurance conferences and client workshops and co-authored several industry publications.

About Crawford

Based in Atlanta, Ga., Crawford & Company (www.crawfordandcompany.com) is the world's largest independent provider of claims management solutions to the risk management and insurance industry as well as self-insured entities, with an expansive global network serving clients in more than 70 countries. The Crawford System of Claims Solutions(SM) offers comprehensive, integrated claims services, business process outsourcing and consulting services for major product lines including property and casualty claims management, workers compensation claims and medical management, and legal settlement administration. The Company's shares are traded on the NYSE under the symbols CRDA and CRDB.

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