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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001022079-26-000052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DGX"
cik: "0001022079"
company_name: "QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC"
filed_at: "2026-05-21T20:48:35+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T20:51:17.661852+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Quest Diagnostics elects all 11 director nominees; stockholder proposal on independent chairman rejected

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected; Timothy M. Ring received 81.9M for, 12.0M against (lowest support).
- Advisory say-on-pay resolution approved: 86.9M for, 7.2M against.
- Ratification of PwC as auditor approved: 97.3M for, 5.8M against.
- Stockholder proposal for independent board chairman rejected: 24.0M for, 69.8M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001022079-26-000052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DGX
- cik: 0001022079
- company_name: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC
- filed_at: 2026-05-21T20:48:35+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022079/000102207926000052/0001022079-26-000052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1022079/000102207926000052/dgx-20260520.htm

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