---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-043508"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABT"
cik: "0000001800"
company_name: "ABBOTT LABORATORIES"
filed_at: "2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T00:54:43.524529+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Abbott General Counsel Hubert L. Allen to retire after transition period

## Summary
- Hubert L. Allen, EVP, General Counsel and Secretary, notified Abbott on April 25, 2025 of his planned retirement.
- Allen will remain with the company through a transition period; no replacement has been named.
- Departure is described as retirement, not termination; no severance or change-in-control triggered.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-043508
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABT
- cik: 0000001800
- company_name: ABBOTT LABORATORIES
- filed_at: 2025-05-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465925043508/0001104659-25-043508-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465925043508/tm2513718d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-043508
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-043508.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-043508.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hubert L. Allen departed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at ABBOTT LABORATORIES.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
  source text: On April 25, 2025, Hubert L. Allen, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, informed Abbott Laboratories that he plans to retire from the company after a period of transition.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465925043508/0001104659-25-043508-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.