W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 23, 2024 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Rob Berkley - President and CEO
Rich Baio - CFO
Bill Berkley - Executive Chairman

Conference Call Participants

Mike Zaremski - BMO
Josh Shanker - Bank of America
David Motemaden - Evercore
Elyse Greenspan - Wells Fargo
Ryan Tunis - Autonomous Research
Mark Hughes - Truist
Brian Meredith - UBS

Operator

Good day and welcome to W. R. Berkley Corporation First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference call is being recorded.

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I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Rob Berkley. Please go ahead, sir.

Rob Berkley

Audra, thank you very much and let me echo your words earlier with a warm welcome to all that are participating in the call today. We appreciate your time and look forward to discussing with you our Q1 2024 results. In addition to myself, we also have Bill Berkley on the call, Executive Chairman and Rich Baio, Chief Financial Officer and we are going to follow our typical agenda where I am going to be handing it over to Rich shortly. He will be running through some highlights, once he is completed his comments, I'll follow along with a few additional thoughts and then we will be pleased to open it up for questions, comments, discussion.

But before I do hand it over to Rich, I think anyone who's had an opportunity to flip through the earnings release would understand already. But I'll say it regardless, that we had a very strong and solid quarter, great way to start the year. And when you really look at the results and unpack it a little bit, as we'll be doing over the next hour or so, it's pretty clear that the business is firing on many cylinders or essentially all cylinders at this stage.