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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

May 12, 2010
(Date of earliest event reported)

LABORATORY CORPORATION OF
AMERICA HOLDINGS
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Delaware
  
1-11353
  
13-3757370
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation)
  
(Commission File Number)
  
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

358 South Main Street,
        
Burlington, North Carolina
  
27215
  
336-229-1127
(Address of principal executive offices)
  
(Zip Code)
  
(Registrant’s telephone number including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Item 5.07
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
 
The following information reflects voting activity for the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on May 12, 2010:

Total outstanding shares of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
  
 
  
(excludes 22,142,567 non-voting Treasury shares):
     104,358,698  
Total shares voted:
     89,472,490  
 

 
 
 
 
Election of the members of the Board of Directors:
  
Votes For
    
Votes Against
    
Votes Abstained
    
Broker Non-Votes
  
David P. King
     79,666,963       1,747,485       33,920       8,024,122  
Kerrii B. Anderson
     80,738,365       674,743       35,260       8,024,122  
Jean-Luc Belingard
     59,856,564       21,558,658       33,146       8,024,122  
Wendy E. Lane
     78,503,664       2,912,491       32,213       8,024,122  
Thomas P. Mac Mahon
     80,284,210       1,129,192       34,966       8,024,122  
Robert E. Mittelstaedt, Jr.
     80,040,714       1,367,362       40,292       8,024,122  
Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh
     80,799,507       609,158       39,703       8,024,122  
M. Keith Weikel, Ph.D.
     80,724,625       683,344       40,399       8,024,122  
R. Sanders Williams, M.D.
     80,822,138       586,301       39,929       8,024,122  
 
Ratification of the Audit Committee’s appointment
                  
of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s
    Votes      Votes      Votes  
independent registered public accounting firm for
  
For
    
Against
    
Abstained
  
the year ending December 31, 2010
     88,999,222       381,770       91,498  
 
SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS
Registrant


 
By:
/s/ F. SAMUEL EBERTS III
   
F. Samuel Eberts III
   
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary


May 14, 2010