First Mercury Financial Corp. Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript

First Mercury Financial Corp. (FMR)

Q1 2010 Earnings Call

May 04, 2010 11:00 am ET

Executives

Richard Smith - President & CEO

John Marazza - EVP & CFO

Ed LaFramboise - VP of Finance

Jim Thomas - SVP of Product Management

Leslie Loyet - Financial Relations Board

Analysts

Keith Alexander - JPMorgan

Paul Newsome - Sandler O’Neill

Doug Mewhirter - RBC Capital Markets

Bob Farnam - Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

Morse Williams - Williams & Company

Caroline Steers - Macquarie

Presentation

Operator

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Greetings and welcome to the First Mercury Financial Corporation first quarter 2010 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. (Operator Instructions) As a remainder this conference is being recorded.

It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Leslie Loyet of the Financial Relations Board. Thank you Ms. Loyet, you may begin.

Leslie Loyet

Thank you. I’d like to thank everyone for joining us today. Yesterday, we sent out a press release outlining the results for the first quarter 2010. If anyone has not received the release, please visit the Investor Relations page on the company’s website at www.firstmercury.com to retrieve a copy. Management will provide an overview of the quarter, and then we’ll open the call up to your questions.

Please be advised that this call may involve forward-looking statements, as discussed in the May 3, 2010 press release. Risks associated with these statements can be found in the company’s latest SEC filings. Additionally, we want to remind participants that the information contained in this call is current only as of the day of this call, May 4, 2010 and the company assumes no obligation to update any statements, including forward-looking statements made during this call. Listeners to any replay should understand that the passage of time by itself will diminish the quality of the statement.