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 Poteet 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 Commissioner’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.
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