Maryland’s Fair Employment Practices Act provides state-level protection with materially broader coverage in Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, and Baltimore City through local anti-discrimination ordinances. The state’s biotech corridor, federal contractor base, and academic medicine concentration drive a distinctive damages profile.
Biotech and federal contractor compensation
Gaithersburg and Rockville biotech plaintiffs face compensation with milestone-contingent equity triggers tied to clinical or regulatory events. Federal-contractor plaintiffs face cost-plus-fee compensation with burden-adjusted rate structures that affect how lost earnings are reconstructed. The model treats each component separately.
Academic medicine
Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland academic-medicine plaintiffs face compensation with clinical-practice-plan, research-grant, and teaching components that operate on different rhythms. The model reconstructs each stream rather than applying an aggregate figure.
Worklife & discount-rate notes
Maryland's biotech, federal-contractor, and healthcare sectors produce distinct compensation profiles. Biotech plaintiffs in the Gaithersburg-Rockville corridor face equity-heavy compensation with milestone-contingent triggers; federal-contractor plaintiffs face cost-plus-fee structures with classification overlays; healthcare plaintiffs face academic-medical-center LTIPs at Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland systems.
