Aaron Jacoby | VP, Corporate Development |
Craig Kliethermes | President & COO |
Jonathan Michael | Chairman & CEO |
Todd Bryant | VP and CFO |
Randy Binner | B. Riley FBR |
Christopher Campbell | KBW |
Jeffrey Schmidt | William Blair & Co. |
Mark Dwelle | RBC Capital Markets |
Good morning, and welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the RLI Corp., Second Quarter Earnings Teleconference. Today's conference is being recorded. At the request of the company we'll 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.