Plaintiffs bring this appeal as of right from the trial court’s order granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment.
The six named plaintiffs are all employees of defendant Yellow Freight System, Inc. Plaintiffs Lewis, Ammon, Judd and Stewart were injured in separate truck collisions in 1976. Plaintiffs Bianchi and Daugherty were injured while alighting from *68their trucks in 1975 and 1976 respectively. It is undisputed that all plaintiffs’ injuries were suffered in the course of their employment; nor is it disputed that plaintiffs’ accidents were within the scope of the no-fault insurance act. Plaintiffs brought this action to recover personal protection benefits under the no-fault auto insurance act from Yellow Freight as the self-insured pwner of the vehicles which plaintiffs were operating or from which they were alighting when injured. Alternatively, plaintiffs sought recovery of personal protection benefits from defendant insurance companies under policies of no-fault insurance covering plaintiffs’ personal automobiles.
On appeal, plaintiffs claim that they are entitled to personal protection benefits from either Yellow Freight or their own insurance companies. Yellow Freight reiterates its claim, successful in the trial court, that plaintiffs are barred from seeking personal protection benefits by the exclusive remedy provision of the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act, MCL 418.131; MSA 17.237(131).1 Defendant insurance companies argue that plaintiffs, if they are entitled to benefits at all, must seek such benefits from Yellow Freight under the priority provision of the no-fault act, MCL 500.3114; MSA 24.13114.2
*69The issue of an employee’s right to recover personal protection benefits for injuries suffered in an auto accident occurring in the course of his employment has been raised in other cases, with varying success. In Mathis v Interstate Motor Freight System, 73 Mich App 602; 252 NW2d 842 (1977), a panel of this Court held in a brief per curiam opinion that worker’s compensation benefits were plaintiff’s exclusive remedy against his employer. In Hawkins v Auto-Owners Ins Co, 83 Mich App 225; 268 NW2d 534 (1978), Chief Judge Danhof, distinguishing Mathis, held that an employee was entitled to recover personal protection benefits from his employer’s no-fault insurance carrier, on grounds that MCL 418.131 barred recovery only from the employer, not from the employer’s insurer.3 Judge Kelly concurred in the result only, while Judge T. M. Burns concurred on different grounds.4
Subsequently, in Ottenwess v Hawkeye Security Ins Co, 84 Mich App 292; 269 NW2d 570 (1978), two members of the Mathis panel expressly re*70jected Chief Judge Danhof’s reasoning in Hawkins, supra, and held that the liabilities of insurers and self-insurers under the no-fault act are coextensive. The Ottenwess panel based its conclusion on MCL 500.3101(4); MSA 24.13101(4), which provides that a self-insurer "has all the obligations and rights of an insurer” under the no-fault act. Noting that the no-fault insurer "must be considered the alter ego of the employer”, the Court held that the exclusive remedy provision of the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act barred recovery from the insurer as well as from the employer, Ottenwess, supra, 296.5
Judge Allen agreed with the conclusion of the majority in Ottenwess that the liabilities of insurers and self-insurers under the no-fault act are coextensive. He disagreed, however, that the exclusive remedy provision barred recovery of personal protection benefits under no-fault. Citing the legislative history of the no-fault act and relying on "a common sense reading” of MCL 500.3114(3); MSA 24.13114(3), he concluded that "the Legislature intended to allow an employee to sue the employer’s no-fault carrier in situations where the employee was injured while occupying a vehicle owned by the employer”. Ottenwess, supra, 302 (dissent by Allen, J.).
We find the reasoning of Judge Allen’s dissent persuasive, and expressly adopt it. Accord, Hubert v Citizens Ins Co of America, 88 Mich App 710; 279 NW2d 48 (1979). Plaintiffs are entitled to personal protection benefits as authorized by the no-fault insurance act. Yellow Freight, as owner and self-insurer of the vehicles involved, is required to pay those benefits, MCL 500.3114; MSA 24.13114. We *71note that Yellow Freight is entitled to deduct from no-fault personal protection benefits any amounts it has paid in worker’s compensation benefits as self-insurer under the Worker’s Disability Compensation Act, O’Donnell v State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins Co, 404 Mich 524; 273 NW2d 829 (1979). Greene v State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins Co, 83 Mich App 505; 268 NW2d 703 (1978).
Because of our disposition of this issue, we do not reach the question of the liability of defendant insurance companies to pay benefits under policies issued to plaintiffs.
Reversed and remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion. No costs, a public question being involved.