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Meeting Information            

 

LABORATORY CORP. OF AMERICA HOLDINGS

   

 

Meeting Type:

 

  

 

Annual Meeting

 

      For holders as of:   March 15, 2010
     

 

Date:      May 12, 2010

 

  

 

          Time:    9:00 a.m. EDT

 

      Location:    The Paramount Theater
     

 128 East Front Street

     

 Burlington, NC 27215

 

 

LABORATORY CORP. OF AMERICA HOLDINGS

358 SOUTH MAIN STREET

BURLINGTON, NC 27215

 

   

 

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Voting Items                
 

The Board of Directors recommends

you vote FOR the following proposals:

              

 

1.      Election of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors

      

2.       Ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings’ independent registered public accounting firm for 2010.

      

 

         Nominees:

            

         1a.  David P. King

            

         1b.  Kerrii B. Anderson

 

         1c.  Jean-Luc Bélingard

      

NOTE: Such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.

      

         1d.  Wendy E. Lane

            

         1e.  Thomas P. Mac Mahon

 

         1f.  Robert E. Mittelstaedt, Jr.

 

         1g.  Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh

            

         1h.  M. Keith Weikel, Ph.D.

            

         1i.  R. Sanders Williams, M.D.

            

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