Virtually 100% of Mrs. Cole’s practice involves workers’ compensation matters and other related and ancillary issues including retaliatory discharge/wrongful termination.  She is a certified mediator and focuses her mediation practice on employment related matters. Mrs. Cole represents insurance companies, Funds, governmental entities, corporations, and other businesses, both large and small, throughout Alabama in a variety of workers’ compensation related legal matters including consultations on preventative measures to alleviate on the job injuries and to counsel businesses on handling work-related claims prior to litigation. She has worked in both private practice and as in-house counsel dealing with litigation and regulatory compliance matters for companies that underwrite workers’ compensation and employers’ liability coverage.