Troubled Iowa insurer CoOportunity Health may be liquidated – Money – Omaha.com: Breaking news and local coverage from the Omaha World-Herald

“I don’t think any carriers really knew how to price their products in any state,” he said. Other insurance companies have a “legacy business” that gives them a better picture of premium revenue and expected claims, Gerhart said. But the cooperatives are new and don’t have that history.

http://m.omaha.com/money/troubled-iowa-insurer-cooportunity-health-may-be-liquidated/article_825f0962-8b7d-11e4-b6d3-ef7555754633.html?mode=jqm

This is why you have to grow business in a slow & predictable manner.