A longtime Atlanta-area insurance agent has been indicted and arrested after allegedly keeping premium payments and issuing fake certificates of insurance.
Charles Curtis Poteet IV, of Duluth, Georgia, was indicted in late May by a Gwinnett County grand jury, and was recently found and arrested in Texas, according to court records and local news reports.
Atlanta News First reported that authorities began investigating after the news outlet reported complaints from business owners in 2023. Three people said that Pote
et had collected premiums for a number of commercial policies, but had never secured coverage, the news site reported.
Court records indicate that Poteet now faces insurance fraud charges from his alleged actions in 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The Georgia Office of Insurance Commi
ssioner’s verification webpage shows that Poteet was initially granted a property/casualty producer license
in 2008 but his license became inactive in April of this year. Poteet & Poteet in Norcross is the name of the agency.
He had been appointed with 48 insurance companies, including three major national carriers. But all appointments had been terminated or had become inactive by this year.
The fake certificates of insurance were for workers’ compensation, general liability, automobile and umbrella insurance policies, ANF reported.
A phone number listed for Poteet was no longer in service as of Sunday.
A North Carolina couple this week was awaiting court action after they were charged with filing claims with
two different insurance carriers—State Farm and Homesite Insurance, court records show.
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Gurjant Singh Gill, 42, and Karmpreet Kaur Gill, 41, of Raleigh, were charged with insurance f
raud in May after investigators with the state Department of Insurance found duplicate claims for the same hail damage, according to the DOI and Wake County court documents.
In February, the Gills claimed $30,000 damage from wind and hail, including creased shingles and downspout damage, and filed a claim with Homesite, part of the American Family Group.
It turned out that the couple had made very similar claims just months before, records show.
“The investigation showed that Gill has been involved in two other claims of this nature with his
home over the last two years,” reads the May 21 arrest warrant, in Wake County District Court. “Gill received settlement for the same damage from State Farm Insurance in 2025.”
Karmpreet Gill told a Homesite adjuster that an ice storm had caused the damage and her husband had climbed on the roof and had seen missing shingles.
“She was asked about the prior claim with State Farm Insurance for the same type of damage on October 7, 2025,” an investigator wrote in her arrest warrant. “She denied any knowledge of the payout and if any repairs were made. She then said her husband made the repairs…”
