C is correct. The misstatement of age provision prevents either the insurer or policyowner from receiving an unintended financial advantage when an incorrect age was used to calculate the premium. Hawaiʻi's life-insurance statutory provisions provide that when the insured's age, or another age considered in determining the premium, has been misstated, the benefit is adjusted to the amount that the actual premium paid would have purchased at the correct age .
For example, if an insured understated age and therefore paid a premium appropriate for a younger person, the insurer does not normally void the policy merely because the age was incorrect. Instead, the death benefit is recalculated using the premium actually paid and the insured's correct age. Conversely, where the misstatement caused an excessive premium relative to the correct age, the contractual adjustment operates according to the policy and applicable law.
This provision must be distinguished from incontestability. An age misstatement remains subject to contractual adjustment even though the general contestability period may have expired.
Options A, B, and D do not apply the actuarial correction required by the age-misstatement provision.
Reference topics: Misstatement of Age; Policy Provisions; Premium Calculation; HRS Article 10D Standard Life Provisions.
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