Elected and appointed

Stuart H. Sostmann, shareholder in the Pittsburgh office of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, was appointed regional director, West Region, of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute.

Sostmann, a member of Marshall Dennehey's casualty department, concentrates his practice in the area of commercial general liability.

He routinely handles matters in the fields of products liability, premises liability, auto liability, construction law, dram shop and commercial litigation.