Remedy and penalty for certain violations
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 228 Wis. 2d 1 - Kett v. Community Credit Plan, Inc. (1999)
Most recently applied in 386 Wis. 2d 388 - Security Finance v. Brian Kirsch (April 2019)
1971 c. 239
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A person who commits a violation to which this section applies is liable to the customer in an amount equal to the greater of:
(1) Twice the amount of the finance charge in connection with the transaction, except that the liability under this subsection shall not be less than $100 nor greater than $1,000; or (2) The actual damages, including any incidental and consequential damages, sustained by the customer by reason of the violation.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.