Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action Suit against Navistar International Corporation

SAN DIEGO --(Business Wire)--

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP ("Robbins Geller") (http://www.rgrdlaw.com/cases/navistar/) today announced that a class action has been commenced on behalf of an institutional investor in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of purchasers of Navistar International Corporation ("Navistar") (NYSE:NAV) common stock during the period between November 3, 2010 and August 1, 2012 (the "Class Period").

If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than 60 days from today. If you wish to discuss this action or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, please contact plaintiff's counsel, Darren Robbins of Robbins Geller at 800/449-4900 or 619/231-1058, or via e-mail at djr@rgrdlaw.com. If you are a member of this class, you can view a copy of the complaint as filed or join this class action online at http://www.rgrdlaw.com/cases/navistar/. Any member of the putative class may move the Court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member.

The complaint charges Navistar and certain of its officers and directors with violations of the Securities xchange Act of 1934. Navistar is a holding company whose subsidiaries and affiliates produce commercial and military trucks, buses, diesel engines, recreational vehicles, and chassis, as well as provide parts and service for trucks and trailers.

The complaint alleges that during the Class Period, defendants issued materially false and misleading statements concerning the Company's financial condition and future business prospects. Prior to the Class Period, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") had imposed new regulations on 2010 model trucks that included strict emissions standards. The two primary engine technologies that emerged to meet the new standards were Exhaust Gas Recirculation ("EGR") and Selective Catalytic Reduction ("SCR"). Navistar chose the EGR technology, not the SCR technology its competitors were using to meet the new standards, and then represented that the new EGR technology was compliant and the vehicles were ready for sale. By the beginning of the Class Period, however, it was clear this product differentiation strategy was not working. Despite the $700 million Navistar had spent on developing its EGR engine, the Company had not even applied for certification of the EPA emissions standard by the start of the Class Period - 10 months after the EPA standards had become effective. Thus, by the beginning of the Class Period, Navistar faced technological, legal and liquidity issues which threatened its business. To conceal this fact from Navistar's investors and customers, throughout the Class Period defendants repeatedly stated that Navistar had indeed achieved an engineering milestone and had an EPA-compliant EGR engine ready to be certified. As a result of defendants' false statements, the price of Navistar common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the Class Period, reaching a high of $70.17 per share on April 26, 2011.

In July 2012, Navistar admitted its failure to achieve an EPA-compliant EGR engine and announced that in order to remain in business it was adopting the same SCR technology its competitors had been using. On August 2, 2012, Navistar issued a press release announcing that is was withdrawing its full-year fiscal 2012 guidance until the release of its third fiscal quarter 2012 results in September. Further, the Company disclosed receiving a formal letter of inquiry from the SEC (News - Alert) involving an investigation of various accounting and disclosure matters dating back to November 2010. As a result of this news, the price of Navistar's common stock dropped from a closing price of $24.77 per share on August 1, 2012 to $21.44 per share on August 2, 2012, a decline of approximately 13% in one trading day.

According to the complaint, the true facts, which were known by defendants but concealed from the investing public during the Class Period, were as follows: (a) Navistar's attempted methods to achieve compliance with EPA guidelines in truck manufacturing had failed and Navistar would be forced to revise its plan to meet guidelines, incurring enormous costs to the Company; (b) Navistar did not have engines ready to meet the 2010 EPA standards; and (c) Navistar's filings with the SEC contained incomplete and misleading disclosures, including statements about the costs of recalls and details of various debts.

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages on behalf of all purchasers of Navistar common stock during the Class Period (the "Class"). The plaintiff is represented by Robbins Geller, which has expertise in prosecuting investor class actions and extensive experience in actions involving financial fraud.

Robbins Geller represents U.S. and international institutional investors in contingency-based securities and corporate litigation. With nearly 200 lawyers in nine offices, the firm represents hundreds of public and multi-employer pension funds with combined assets under management in excess of $2 trillion. The firm has obtained many of the largest recoveries in history and has been ranked number one in the number of shareholder class action recoveries in MSCI's Top SCAS 50 every year since 2003. According to Cornerstone Research, the firm's recoveries have averaged 35% above the median for all firms over the past seven years (2005-2011). Please visit http://www.rgrdlaw.com for more information.