In a wrongful death action arising from a motor vehicle collision, a judgment for plaintiff and damages award, representing an 80 percent fault allocation to defendants pursuant to a special verdict, is reversed and remanded in part where the trial court erred: 1) in accepting the juror declarations to inquire into and resolve the results of the jury's decision-making process; 2) when it made a credibility determination that a jury foreperson could not effectively have voted other than 80/20 at any relevant time; and 3) in failing to reconvene the jury for further deliberations on the basis of a jury dissent when there was no essential ninth vote on the special verdict for apportionment of liability.