In Cerulean Cos. v. Tiller 271 Ga. 65 (516 SE2d 522) (1999), the state insurance commissioner approved a plan for conversion of a health insurance company from a nonprofit company to a new for-profit company. Subscribers of the nonprofit company who had not been issued shares in the for-profit company later brought a lawsuit claiming that the conversion plan should have required the health insurance company to issue such shares to them. The Court held that those subscribers' failure to raise that issue before the state insurance commissioner and thereby exhaust their administrative remedies barred them from bringing suit. The longstanding Georgia rule, cited by Cerulean, requires that "a party aggrieved by a state agency's decision must raise all issues before that agency and exhaust available administrative remedies before seeking any judicial review of the agency's decision." 271 Ga. at 66 (1). As pointed out by Cerulean, part of the rationale for requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies is that resort to the administrative process will permit the agency to apply its expertise to matters within the agency's jurisdiction. Id. at 67.