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Advanced Underwriting Techniques, by Joseph Mangan and Connor Harrison (Insurance Institute of America, 1995).
Enrichment of the Skills of the Professional Underwriter might be a more appropriate title for this compendium of topics that are supportive of the underwriter. In all too many places, the role of the underwriter is narrowly defined as making risk selection decisions on a day-to-day basis. The reality of most underwriters is that they are responsible for risk selection, premium determination and monitoring of decisions, as well as general managerial roles in their organizations. In support of the multiple tasks confronting the underwriter, Advanced Underwriting Techniques by Mangan and Harrison offers a set of four primers on needed skills that lie outside the narrow...