Sumter, Clarendon women among 5 charged with insurance fraud; investigation ongoing, SLED says

South Carolina Law Enforcement Division charged five women, including one from Sumter and another from Manning, in an ongoing investigation of insurance fraud from 2024.

According to an affidavit, Jeanette Weaver, 40, of Manning, worked as a district sales coordinator and presented an insurance application to Aflac with false information with the intent to defraud the insurance company. She reportedly did this on four occasions. 

Aflac received an accident policy application allegedly submitted by someone else, but Weaver admitted she completed and submitted the application using that person’s username and password for the Aflac system. The person was eligible for compensation, but it was actually Weaver. 

Kristina Benjamin, 31, of Sumter, was also charged after she submitted an insurance claim for injuries she sustained in an alleged trampoline accident. According to an affidavit, Benjamin knowingly submitted a false physician’s statement from Lowcountry Urgent Care in October 2024; it was later confirmed that the document was falsified and the doctor’s signature was forged.

She also submitted two more claims in December 2024 and February 2025  for continuing disability for alleged injuries from the trampoline accident. She reportedly submitted a false physician's statement from Florence Neurosurgery & Spine. It was later confirmed Benjamin was not seen at the facility on that date, and the document was falsified and the physician’s signature was forged. 

Benjamin attempted to gain more than $10,000 from each claim.

In July 2025, Quadasia Robinson, 27, of Lake City, another defendant in this case, and Benjamin conspired to file a false Aflac insurance claim against the company’s short-term disability policy. Robinson reportedly visited Lowcountry Urgent Care and submitted an employer’s statement. She later admitted she did not visit the medical facility and that the employer’s statement was forged. 

Robinson also allowed Benjamin to file the claim on her behalf. Aflac paid Robinson $5,400 for the claim, and she then paid Benjamin about $2,500 for submitting the claim. 

Weaver was charged with 14 counts of fraudulent insurance application by an agent. 

Benjamin was charged with four counts of presenting a false claim for insurance payment valued at $10,000 or more, five counts of forgery valued at less than $10,000 and presenting a false claim for insurance payment valued at more than $2,000 but less than $10,000. 

Robinson was charged with presenting a false claim for insurance payment valued at more than $2,000 but less than $10,000.

Co-defendants Shaquilla Singletary, 34, of Florence, and Shaquarius Canty, 34, of Columbia, were both charged with forgery valued at less than $10,000. Singletary was charged with presenting a false claim for insurance payment of more than $2,000 but less than $10,000 while Canty was charged with presenting a false claim for insurance payment of $10,000 or more. 

All five women were booked at Clarendon County Detention Center.