Samuel D. Binnun

Primary Focus
Partner Oversight of:

Market Regulation Practice

"As a former regulator, I continue to focus on protecting insurance consumers to ensure they are treated fairly and making sure that insurance companies comply with states’ insurance laws and regulations."

Sam has over 25 years of insurance, regulatory, industry, and field experience including 10 years as market regulation, compliance and enforcement regulator. His expertise includes coordinating, managing and leading teams which provide market regulation consulting services on comprehensive, targeted, and risk-focused market conduct examinations, as well as investigations, enforcement, compliance, market analysis, quality assurance, policies and procedures reviews, operational reviews and training for all lines of insurance. Sam provides leadership and oversight to state clients and the Market Regulation Team.

Sam Binnun
Thought Leadership

Sam has presented on several occasions and has advised various state insurance departments on the area of Market Regulation. Sam currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society (IRES). He is former Treasurer and Chair of the IRES Budget Committee and Career Development Seminar (CDS), as well as Section Chair for the Life Section for the IRES CDS. Additionally, Sam serves on numerous CDS Committees. As the former director of Market Investigations for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Sam served as a former Vice Chair of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Market Actions Working Group and actively participated on numerous Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs (D) Committee Working Groups.

Line of Business Expertise

  • Life and Annuity including suitability
  • Health/HMO
  • Property & Casualty
  • Title
Education and Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science, Marketing, Florida State University
  • Accredited Insurance Examiner
  • Market Conduct Management
  • Life Underwriter Training Council Fellowship