C. It insures the life of a debtor is correct. Hawaiʻi's statutory definition is explicit: credit life insurance means insurance on the life of a debtor pursuant to or in connection with a specific loan or other credit transaction . Hawaiʻi also defines the debtor as the borrower of money or purchaser or lessee of goods, services, property, rights, or privileges where payment is arranged through a credit transaction.

The purpose of credit life insurance is generally to extinguish or reduce the insured debtor's outstanding indebtedness if the debtor dies while the covered obligation remains unpaid. The creditor has an economic interest in repayment and normally receives proceeds to the extent of the insured debt, but that does not mean the creditor's life is insured. The insured person is the debtor.

Option A is incorrect because a spouse's life is not automatically the subject of credit life coverage merely by virtue of marriage. Option B reverses the parties to the transaction. Option D is also incorrect because a beneficiary receives insurance proceeds; beneficiary status does not make that individual's life the insured risk.

Credit life is treated separately in Hawaiʻi law and is specifically included in the state's limited-line credit insurance framework.

Reference topics: HRS §431:10B-103; Credit Life Insurance; Debtor and Creditor; Limited-Line Credit Insurance.

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