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ALEX AUTRAN, administrator of the estate of Jean-Philippe Autran,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
PROCTER & GAMBLE HEALTH AND LONG-TERM DISABILITY BENEFIT PLAN, c/o Procter & Gamble Disability Committee; PROCTER & GAMBLE DISABILITY COMMITTEE, in its capacity as the Plan Administrator and/or Trustee for the Procter & Gamble Disability Benefit Trust,
Defendants-Appellees.
   No. 20-6432
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
No. 3:19-cv-00135—Clifton Leland Corker, District Judge.
Argued: October 20, 2021
Decided and Filed: February 24, 2022
Before: BOGGS, GRIFFIN, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.


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OPINION
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MURPHY, Circuit Judge. A seizure disorder unfortunately ended Dr. Jean-Philippe Autran’s career as a top-notch research scientist with Procter & Gamble. In the ensuing years, Autran received total-disability benefits under the Procter & Gamble Health and Long-Term Disability Plan (the “Plan”). The Procter & Gamble Disability Committee (the “Committee”) later terminated these benefits after concluding that Autran no longer qualified as totally disabled within the meaning of the Plan. Autran sued to overturn the Committee’s benefits decision under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Yet the Plan delegates discretionary authority to the Committee to decide benefits claims, so we must review its decision under the deferential arbitrary-and-capricious test. And the Committee had rational reasons to depart from the earlier total-disability finding. Among other new evidence, a doctor who performed many objective tests on Autran for over six hours found no basis to conclude that he suffered from a debilitating condition. We thus affirm the district court’s summary-judgment decision for the Committee.