Mary Frances S. England

MARY FRANCES S. ENGLAND (Frankie) was born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1979. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English, magna cum laude, from Mississippi State University in 2001 and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 2004. During law school, Ms. England served as executive articles editor of the Mississippi Law Journal, a member of the Moot Court Board and a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Ms. England is a member of the Mississippi State Bar and the Mississippi Defense Lawyers' Association. Ms. England is admitted to practice law before all Mississippi state courts, the federal district courts in Mississippi, and the Court of Appleals for the Fifth Circuit. Ms. England's practice primarily consists of medical malpractice and workers' compensation defense.

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Ervin v. Delta Regional Medical Center, No. 2008-CA-01816-COA (Miss. 2010)

Mary Frances S. England and Carl Hagwood represented the Appellee/ Defendant, Delta Regional Medical Center, in a case of alleged medical malpractice where the Plaintiff's decedent died of a pulmonary embolus shortly after a hysterectomy was performed by an employed physician at Delta Regional Medical Center. The deceased's husband filed a wrongful death action, and the trial court found that the Plaintiff's expert offered no peer review literature or studies to support his opinion of the national recognized standard of care. Following a bench trial, the Circuit Court found in favor of Delta Regional Medical Center on these grounds, and the Court of Appeals upheld the action of the trial court specifically finding that without peer review literature to support the Plaintiff's expert's position on breach and causation, the Complaint should be dismissed.