APPEX Partner Receives Award

Marsh, Berry & Company, Inc. announced that Kuhl & Company Insurance, one of its Agency Peak Performance EXchange (APPEX) Partners received the Professional Independent Insurance Agencies of Illinois (PIIAI) 2003 Agency of the Year award. Kuhl & Company is located in Morton, Ill.

Phil Kuhl, founder and principal, shared how APPEX helped his agency achieve this award, noting “APPEX has provided our agency with a way to benchmark ourselves with other high performing agencies and has given us a new standard where we continually work to improve our business. Our 12 PAX group has been a driving force in pushing us to continually improve and to become the best agency we can be.”

The 12 PAX is a component to the APPEX improvement process, and the group meets twice a year. Each member is sworn to confidentiality and pledged to listen, advise, share, critique and guide one another toward accomplishing agreed-upon goals.

Kuhl & Company provides full insurance service to personal and commercial customers. They offer all types of business insurance including, employee benefit programs, risk management, life insurance, contract surety, plus insurance such as auto, home, recreational vehicles, individual health and life products and extended care insurance.