DGX 06.11.15 8-K


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
 

FORM 8-K
 

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

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): June 11, 2015
 
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
 
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation)
 
 
 
001-12215
 
16-1387862
(Commission File Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
 
 
 
Three Giralda Farms
Madison, NJ 07940
 
07940
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip Code)
 
 
 
(973) 520-2700
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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Item 5.02 Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

e.

On June 11, 2015, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (the "Company") and Stephen H. Rusckowski, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company (the “Employee”), amended the Employment Agreement (the “Employment Agreement”) entered into as of April 9, 2012, between the Company and the Employee to extend the initial term of the Employment Agreement so that it will expire on December 31, 2018 instead of December 31, 2015.  No other terms of the Employment Agreement were modified.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

c. Exhibit

10.1 Amendment dated June 11, 2015 between the Company and Stephen H. Rusckowski.


Signature
    
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.

June 15, 2015

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

By:    /s/ William J. O'Shaughnessy, Jr.
William J. O'Shaughnessy, Jr.
Secretary



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