Aaron Jacoby | Vice President of Corporate Development |
Tom Brown | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Craig Kliethermes | President and Chief Operating Officer |
Jon Michael | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
Arash Soleimani | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods |
Randy Binner | FBR |
Mark Dwelle | RBC Capital Markets |
Ron Bobman | Capital Returns |
Ken Billingsley | Compass Point |
Ian Gutterman | Balyasny |
Good morning, and welcome ladies and gentlemen to the RLI Corp Third Quarter Earnings Teleconference. At this time, I would like to inform you that this conference is being recorded and that all participants are in a listen-only mode. At the request of the company, we will open the conference up for questions and answers after the presentation.
Before we get started, let me remind everyone that through the course of the teleconference, RLI management may make comments that reflect their intentions, beliefs and expectations for the future.
As always, these forward-looking statements are subject to certain risk factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially.