Damages for violation of the requirements of this Article, including Section 9-609 [Maine cite section 9-1609], are those reasonably calculated to put an eligible claimant in the position that it would have occupied had no violation occurred. See Section 1-106. Subsection (b) [Maine cite subsection (2)] supports the recovery of actual damages for committing a breach of the peace in violation of Section 9-609 [Maine cite section 9- 1609], and principles of tort law supplement this subsection. See Section 1-103. However, to the extent that damages in tort compensate the debtor for the same loss dealt with by this Article, the debtor should be entitled to only one recovery.

4. Minimum Damages in Consumer-Goods Transactions. Subsection (c)(2) [Maine cite subsection (3), paragraph (b)] provides a minimum, statutory, damage recovery for a debtor and secondary obligor in a consumer-goods transaction. It is patterned on former Section 9-507(1) and is designed to ensure that every noncompliance with the requirements of Part 6 in a consumer-goods transaction results in liability, regardless of any injury that may have resulted. Subsection (c)(2) [Maine cite subsection (3), paragraph (b)] leaves the treatment of statutory damages as it was under former Article 9. A secured party is not liable for statutory damages under this subsection more than once with respect to any one secured obligation. See Section 9-628(e) [Maine cite section 9-1628, subsection (5)]. Nor is a secured party liable under this subsection for failure to comply with Section 9-616 [Maine cite section 9-1616]. See Section 9-628(d) [Maine cite section 9-1628, subsection (4)].

Following former Section 9-507(1), this Article does not include a definition or explanation of the terms "credit service charge," "principal amount," "time-price differential," or "cash price," as used in subsection (c)(2) [Maine cite subsection (3), paragraph (b)]. It leaves their construction and application to the court, taking into account the subsection's purpose of providing a minimum recovery in consumer-goods transactions.

5. Supplemental Damages. Subsections (e) and (f) [Maine cite subsections (5) and (6)] provide damages that supplement the recovery, if any, under subsection (b) [Maine cite subsection (2)]. Subsection (e) [Maine cite subsection (5)] imposes an additional $500 liability upon a person who fails to comply with the provisions specified in that subsection, and subsection (f) [Maine cite subsection (6)] imposes like damages on a person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a request for an