The wrongful death lawsuit against Bold Lines Inc. claims the bus company failed to provide adequate training and was careless in the supervision of its drivers.

Laywers for Bold Lines Inc. have asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit.

Filing the lawsuit is the family of Rhonda Hill, 52, who died in a tour bus crash on Interstate 90 three miles west of Austin last November in Freeborn County. The lawsuit was filed in January in Freeborn County District Court.

The lawsuit states the bus was driven Nov. 18, 2009, by Edwin Erickson, 52, on I-90 and states he “failed to maintain control of the vehicle.” It says that Bold Lines Inc. was the owner of the bus and is responsible for the acts of the driver.

“That as a direct and proximate result of the negligence and carelessness of the defendants’, and each of them, as alleged, plaintiffs decedent Rhonda Hall sustains injuries which caused her wrongful death,” the lawsuit states.

Levi Hill, 18, of Rochester, is acting as trustee for the next of kin of Rhonda Hill. The lawsuit was filed Jan. 22 by Levi Hill’s lawyer, Paul Dahlberg.

The lawsuit also states that Bold Lines owed the public a duty to evaluating applicants before hiring them as drivers, training and supervising drivers and evaluating an employee’s fitness to drive.

Erickson suffered a ruptured aneurysm just before the crash. Bold Lines’ lawyers note the medical condition was undiagnosed.

The next of kin are seeking more than $50,000 in damages, a typical requested amount set by Minnesota statute. The money would be for the next of kin who have “incurred expenses for medical treatment and funeral expenses” along with “care, comfort, society, companionship, aid, assistance and advice” they would have received if she hadn’t died.

Two people died in the November bus crash. The other was 56-year-old Pamela Holmquist of Kasson. Twenty others were injured.