Sen. J.D. Alexander, a Lake Wales Republican, and Sen. Dave Aronberg, a Greenacres Democrat, will hold a press conference tomorrow about a bill to require mandatory bodily injury coverage, which they plan to file, assuming PIP is taken up during the special session.

The bodily injury or "B.I." bill, which had been filed by Aronberg last session, was backed by the big auto insurers and the trial attorneys. The timing is interesting, because auto insurers, who hate the agreement negotiated by Sen. Bill Posey and Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff late last week, have launched an attack to defeat the compromise, sending letters to policyholders urging drivers to ask lawmakers to kill the deal.

Aronberg said that he could live with the Posey-Bogdanoff compromise, but "if we're going to have a PIP session, we should consider all the options, not just the ones that have been negotiated over the last few weeks."