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Fraud has become a serious issue for underwriters and lenders.
Her father was a commercial marine underwriter.
The application will be reviewed by an underwriter from the insurance company.

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underwriter | Business English

underwriter
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈʌndəˌraɪtər/ us /-dəraɪṱɚ/
INSURANCE
an organization, or someone working for one, that underwrites insurance policies:
Mortgage insurance underwriters refuse coverage for loans made to borrowers with credit scores less than 575.
STOCK MARKET
a financial organization, or someone working for one, that underwrites new shares when they are offered for sale:
The biggest underwriter was Swiss Bank Corporation in London agreeing to back one third of the shares.

Examples of underwriter

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On the other hand, the underwriters with a medical background and the medical doctors all used sophisticated mental models.
In this case, banks are only underwriters of securities ; they do not hold them on their balance sheets.
Medical underwriting was conducted by all underwriters (n=20) while thinking aloud.
The underwriters with a medical background and the medical doctors also applied the networks for taxonomies of diseases.
There were 16 medical underwriters and four medical doctors who participated in both our studies.
The underwriters with a medical background and the medical doctors all used sophisticated mental models, while the medical doctors were the only participants who used backward-chaining hypotheses.
Semantic networks were used to classify insurance products, and the underwriters with a medical background and the medical doctors also used them for taxonomies of diseases.
Of the medical underwriters with a background in administration, half used no mental models at all, and the others made no predictions and formulated no hypotheses.
Almost half (five) of the 11 medical underwriters with a background in administration used no mental models at all, the other half used extremely simple models.
These results do not yet tell us which structure is most often applied by underwriters; all are used by a majority or all of the participants.
Medical underwriters with a background in administration made no predictions and formulated no hypotheses, while the medical doctors were the only participants who used backward-chaining hypotheses.
The scrutiny of the underwriters in guaranteeing the subscription of the money will be no safeguard against malpractices in the administration of the company.
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