0001127602-12-015538.txt : 20120502 0001127602-12-015538.hdr.sgml : 20120502 20120502162510 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001127602-12-015538 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120501 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120502 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120502 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001022079 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-MEDICAL LABORATORIES [8071] IRS NUMBER: 161387862 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3 GIRALDA FARMS CITY: MADISON STATE: NJ ZIP: 07940 BUSINESS PHONE: 9735202700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3 GIRALDA FARMS CITY: MADISON STATE: NJ ZIP: 07940 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CORNING CLINICAL LABORATORIES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19960903 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: RUSCKOWSKI STEPHEN H CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001142624 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12215 FILM NUMBER: 12805602 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED STREET 2: 3 GIRALDA FARMS CITY: MADISON STATE: NJ ZIP: 07940 3 1 form3.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0205 3 2012-05-01 1 0001022079 QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC DGX 0001142624 RUSCKOWSKI STEPHEN H C/O QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED 3 GIRALDA FARMS MADISON NJ 07940 1 1 President and CEO /s/ William J. O'Shaughnessy, Jr., Attorney in Fact for Stephen H. Rusckowski 2012-05-02 EX-24 2 doc1.txt EXHIBIT 24 POWER OF ATTORNEY Know all by these present, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of William J. OShaughnessy, Jr. and Michael E. Prevoznik, signing singly, his true and lawful attorney in fact to: (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete the execution of any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and the timely filing of such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any other authority; and (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney in fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the document executed to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney in fact may approve in his discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney in fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney in fact, or such attorney in facts substitute or substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys in fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigneds responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 1st day of May, 2012. /s/ Stephen H. Rusckowski Stephen H. Rusckowski STATE OF NEW JERSEY ) ) ss. COUNTY OF MORRIS ) On this 1st day of May, 2012, before me, Dawn M. Leahy, the undersigned notary public, personally appeared Stephen H. Rusckowski, proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that she executed the same for the purposes therein stated. /s/ Dawn M. Leahy Notary Public My Commission Expires 9/12/2013