0 a person who decides whether a bank should give an activity financial support and take responsibility for paying any costs if it fails:
1 an organization, or someone working for one, that underwrites insurance policies:
2 a financial organization, or someone working for one, that underwrites new shares when they are offered for sale:
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.
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.
