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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-22-021967"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LNC"
cik: "0000059558"
company_name: "LINCOLN NATIONAL CORP"
filed_at: "2022-06-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T05:39:08.528109+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lincoln National shareholders approve 1.85M share increase for 2020 Incentive Compensation Plan

## Summary
- 13 directors elected with votes ranging from 124M to 135M for; broker non-votes of ~17M.
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditor for 2022: 146.1M for, 7.9M against.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 116.8M for, 19.7M against, 0.7M abstentions.
- Non-binding shareholder proposals for independent board chair and termination pay ratification both failed.
- Amendment to 2020 Plan adds 1,850,000 shares, total authorized now 7,050,000.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-021967
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LNC
- cik: 0000059558
- company_name: LINCOLN NATIONAL CORP
- filed_at: 2022-06-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59558/000156459022021967/0001564590-22-021967-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59558/000156459022021967/lnc-8k_20220527.htm

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