allowed, 312 N.C. 621, 323 S.E.2d 921 (1984), rev’d on other grounds, 313 N.C. 565, 330 S.E.2d 600 (1985) (emphasis in original) (citations omitted). Defendants contend that the trial court properly dismissed plaintiff’s claim brought in her individual capacity for loss of consortium based on the ground that the wrongful death statute, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 28A-18-2 (Cum. Supp. 1992), encompasses loss of consortium claims, and any common law claim encompassed by the wrongful death statute must be asserted under this statute by the personal representative for the deceased. We agree. This Court has held that “any common law claim which is now encompassed by the wrongful death statute must be asserted under that statute.” Christenbury v. Hedrick, 32 N.C. App. 708, 712, 234 S.E.2d 3, 5 (1977) (<HOLDING>). Further, loss of consortium is a common law
holding attorney fees may be allowed for expenses incurred for default holding proper the dismissal of an action by the surviving mother for medical and funeral expenses incurred on behalf of her unemancipated minor children who died as a result of an automobile accident holding that an award for medical expenses is proper when the expenses have been incurred but not paid holding imputation was not proper when the record did not show that such expenses had been incurred in the past holding that recovery for medical expenses incurred as result of accident depends on proof of necessity and reasonableness