Mary Skafidas | VP, IR & Corporate Communications |
James Tisch | President, CEO & Director |
David Edelson | SVP & CFO |
Robert Glasspiegel | Janney Montgomery Scott |
Joshua Shanker | Deutsche Bank |
Michael Millman | Millman Research Associates |
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to Loews Corporation's First Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. Thank you. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mary Skafidas to begin. Please go ahead.